X-ray crystallographic studies and comparative reactivity studies of a sodium diisopropylamide (NDA) complex and related hindered amides

…, NDR Barnett, RE Mulvey, W Clegg, PA O'Neil…

Index: Andrews, Philip C.; Barnett, Nicholas D.R.; Mulvey, Robert E.; Clegg, William; O'Neil, Paul A.; Barr, Donald; Cowton, Lucy; Dawson, Andrea J.; Wakefield, Basil J. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 1996 , vol. 518, # 1-2 p. 85 - 95

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Abstract

Two related sodium amide complexes derived from secondary amines with bulky organic substituents have been synthesised and crystallographically characterised. Both [(iPr) 2NNa (TMEDA)] 2 and [Cy (iPr) NNa (TMEDA)] 2 adopt dimeric crystal structures with a central, planar (nitrogen-metal) 2 azametallocyte, a now familiar feature in both lithium amide and sodium amide chemistry. TMEDA ligands chelate in their usual bidentate manner making ...