A Route to Base Coordinate Silicon Difluoride and the Silicon Trifluoride Radical

Soumen Sinhababu, Subrata Kundu, Alexander N. Paesch, Regine Herbst-Irmer, Dietmar Stalke, Israel Fernández, Gernot Frenking, A. Claudia Stückl, Brigitte Schwederski, Wolfgang Kaim, Herbert W. Roesky

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

24 Scopus citations

Abstract

Silicon difluoride (SiF2) is highly unstable at room temperature and condenses at this temperature rapidly to a polymeric material of unknown structure. Therefore, the isolation of a stable monomeric silicon difluoride species is a challenging task. The cyclic alkyl(amino) carbene (cAAC) coordinated silicon difluoride was isolated as (cAAC)2SiF2 (2), synthesized from the reduction of cAAC-SiF4 (1) by using two equivalents of KC8 in the presence of one equivalent of cAAC. In the solid state, compound 2 is stable at room temperature for a long time under inert conditions. The reduction of compound 1 in the presence of one equivalent KC8 resulted in the first stable silicon trifluoride monoradical (cAAC)SiF3 (3).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1264-1268
Number of pages5
JournalChemistry - A European Journal
Volume24
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 26 Jan 2018

Keywords

  • carbenes
  • radicals
  • silicon difluorides
  • silicon tetrafluorides
  • silicon trifluorides

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'A Route to Base Coordinate Silicon Difluoride and the Silicon Trifluoride Radical'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this