Stoichiometrically-controlled reactivity and supramolecular storage of butylmagnesiate anions.
Toluene is metallated by DABCO-activated disodium tetrabutylmagnesiate, but not by DABCO-activated monosodium tributylmagnesiate; this distinction is rationalised by DFT calculations on model systems, and the crystal structure of the main non-metallated product, which shows interstitial MgBu4(2-) dianions within a polycationic network, is reported.
Andrikopoulos
Prokopis C
PC
Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XL, Scotland, UK.
Armstrong
David R
DR
Hevia
Eva
E
Kennedy
Alan R
AR
Mulvey
Robert E
RE
O'Hara
Charles T
CT