Lewis-acid induced disaggregation of dimeric arylantimony oxides

Ralf Kather, Tomáš Svoboda, Maren Wehrhahn, Elena Rychagova, Enno Lork, Libor Dostál, Sergey Yu. Ketkov, Jens Beckmann

Chemical Communications · 2015 · 38 citations · 28 references

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Abstract

The previously known dimeric arylantimony oxides (Ph3SbO)2 and [2,6-(Me2NCH2)2C6H3SbO]2 were disaggregated by the Lewis acid B(C6F5)3 giving rise to the formation of the Lewis pair complexes Ph3SbOB(C6F5)3 and 2,6-(Me2NCH2)2C6H3SbOB(C6F5)3 having short bipolar single Sb-O bonds.

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