Organotin compounds bearing mesogenic sidechains: synthesis, X-ray structures and polymerisation chemistry

PR Deacon, N Devylder, MS Hill, MF Mahon…

Index: Deacon; Devylder; Hill; Mahon; Molloy; Price Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 2003 , vol. 687, # 1 p. 46 - 56

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Abstract

Organotin compounds R3Sn (CH2) n+ 2OC6H4C6H4Y (R3= Ph3, Ph2Bu; Y= H, CN; n= 1– 3) and RX2Sn (CH2) n+ 2OC6H4C6H4Y (R= Ph, Bu; Y= H, CN; X= Br, I; n= 1–3) have been synthesised and characterised by 1H-, 13C-, 119Sn-NMR and Mössbauer spectroscopies. X- ray crystallography reveals tetrahedral geometries for Ph3Sn (CH2) 4OC6H4C6H5 and Ph3Sn (CH2) 3OC6H4C6H4CN, a six-coordinated, bromine-bridged dimeric structure for ...