Multinuclear NMR Study of the solution structure and reactivity of tris (trimethylsilyl) methyllithium and its iodine ate complex

HJ Reich, WH Sikorski, AW Sanders…

Index: Reich, Hans J.; Sikorski, William H.; Sanders, Aaron W.; Jones, Amanda C.; Plessel, Kristin N. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2009 , vol. 74, # 2 p. 719 - 729

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Abstract

The extreme steric bulk of tris (trimethylsilyl) methyl derivatives (1-X) provides interesting structural and dynamic behavior for study. Dynamic NMR studies on 1-SePh and 1-I showed restricted rotation around the C− Si bonds of each trimethylsilyl groups. An extensive multinuclear NMR study of natural abundance and 6Li and 13C enriched 1-Li revealed three species in THF-containing solvents, a dimer 1T, and two monomers, the contact ion pair ...