Sr. Foley et Ds. Richeson, Chalcogen atom transfer reactions. Kinetics of terminal bonded sulfur atomtransfer between main group metal centers, CHEM COMMUN, (15), 2000, pp. 1391-1392
The first comprehensive investigation of S atom transfer between two differ
ent metal centers is presented using the reaction of the terminal chalcogen
atom bearing complex [CyNC(Bu-t)NCy](2)SnS with [CyNC(Bu-t)NCy](2)Ge-II; t
his multielectron redox reaction between Ge-II and Sn-IV proceeds via a sec
ond-order process with an inner sphere mechanism involving a mu-S intermedi
ate as the proposed pathway; results of S and Se atom transfer between [CyN
C(Bu-t)NCy](2)Ge and PPh3 are also presented.