PREPARATION AND STRUCTURES OF (LI[C(N,BU-T)(2)(HN,BU-T)])(2).(THF) AND (LI-2[C(N,BU-T)(3)])(2), CONTAINING THE NOVEL ANIONS [C(N,BU-T)(2)(HN,BU-T)](-) AND [C(N,BU-T)(3)](2-)
T. Chivers et al., PREPARATION AND STRUCTURES OF (LI[C(N,BU-T)(2)(HN,BU-T)])(2).(THF) AND (LI-2[C(N,BU-T)(3)])(2), CONTAINING THE NOVEL ANIONS [C(N,BU-T)(2)(HN,BU-T)](-) AND [C(N,BU-T)(3)](2-), Journal of organometallic chemistry, 550(1-2), 1998, pp. 213-220
The reaction of tert-butyl carbodiimide with one equivalent of (LiNHBu
)-Bu-t in tetrahydrofuran at -78 degrees C produces {Li[C((NBu)-Bu-t)(
2)((HNBu)-Bu-t)]}(2) .(THF) (1), which is an eight-membered Li2C2N4 ri
ng; the deprotonation of 1 with two equivalents of n-BuLi in tetrahydr
ofuran at -78 degrees C and recrystallization of the product from n-pe
ntane yielded the unsolvated dimer {Li-2[C((NBu)-Bu-t)(3)]}(2) (2), wh
ich has a distorted cyclic ladder structure. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science
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