Carbene Stabilization of Diarsenic: From Hypervalency to Allotropy

M.Y. Abraham, Yuzhong Wang, Yaoming Xie, Pingrong Wei, Henry F. Schaefer, Paul von Ragué Schleyer, Gregory H. Robinson

Chemistry - A European Journal · 2009 · 209 citations · 23 references

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Abstract

Diarsenic as a Lewis acid: An N-heterocyclic carbene stabilized diarsenic molecule [L:AsAs:L] (L:=:C{N(2,6-iPr2C6H3)CH}2) (see scheme) has been prepared by potassium/graphite reduction of [L:AsCl3]. The nature of the bonding in this molecule was probed by DFT computations.

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