Synthesis of fluoro(aryloxo)alkaline earth metal cages by C-F bond activation.
Treatment of Ca or Sr metal with Hg(C(6)F(5))(2) and 2,4,6-trimethylphenol (HOmes) in 1,2-dimethoxyethane (dme) at room temperature resulted in C-F bond activation, giving rise to the unique fluoro(aryloxo)alkaline earth cages [Ca(5)(mu(4)-F)(mu(3)-F)(4)(mu-Omes)(4)(Omes)(dme)(4)] 1 and [Sr(10)(mu(4)-F)(4)(mu(3)-F)(4)(mu-Omes)(12)(dme)(4)] 2, which can be viewed as arrested fluorite structures.
Deacon
Glen B
GB
School of Chemistry, Box 23, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia. glen.deacon@sci.monash.edu.au
Junk
Peter C
PC
Moxey
Graeme J
GJ