The arched four-rung ladder structure of the unsolvated dilithium salt of N,N'-bis(trimethylsilyl)-2-aminobenzylamine, and its structural deformationon THF complexation
Rm. Gauvin et al., The arched four-rung ladder structure of the unsolvated dilithium salt of N,N'-bis(trimethylsilyl)-2-aminobenzylamine, and its structural deformationon THF complexation, CHEM COMMUN, (11), 2000, pp. 965-966
The X-ray crystal structures of 2-Li(SiMe3)NC6H4CH2N(SiMe3)Li 1 and 2-Li(Si
Me3)NC6H4CH2N(SiMe3)Li . THF 2 show that both compounds exist in the solid
state as discrete dimers that display an analogous four-rung ladder core, a
llowing us to analyse the effect of THF coordination.