Silver catalysed macrocyclic ether formation: crystal structure of [(CH2O)6Ag2][Ag][AsF6]3

Herbert W. Roesky, Egon Peymann, J. SCHIMKOWIAK, Mathias Noltemeyer, Waltraud Pinkert, George M. Sheldrick

Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications · 1983 · 20 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

Crystals containing the [(CH2O)6Ag2]2+ cation, which possesses approximate D3d symmetry with the two silver atoms each co-oriented by alternate oxygens of a novel twelve membered macrocyclic ether, were isolated from the reaction of (CH2O)3 with AgAsF6.