title: Correlation among the gas-phase, solution, and solid-phase geometrical and NMR parameters of dative bonds in the pentacoordinate silicon compounds. 1-Substituted silatranes.
abstract: Silatranes XSi(OCH2CH2)3N exhibit a good linear relationship between their experimental and calculated (IGLO and GIAO) values of the NMR chemical shifts of (15)N, δN, and the lengths of dative bonds Si←N, dSiN, determined in the gas phase (ED, CCSD), solutions (COSMO PBE0, B3PW91), and crystals (X-ray). An aggregate of the obtained data provides strong evidence that the gas-phase value of dSiN in MeSi(OCH2CH2)3N should be greater by ∼0.05 Å than that determined in the electron diffraction (ED) experiment (2.45 Å). Given this condition, a long-standing contradiction between the data of the structural (X-ray, ED) and NMR (15)N experiments for the molecules of 1-methyl- and 1-fluorosilatrane regarding the sensitivity of their coordination contact Si←N to the medium effect is resolved.
authors.affiliation: A. E. Favorsky Irkutsk Institute of Chemistry, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Favorsky, 1, Irkutsk 664033, Russian Federation.
authors.forename: Elena F
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Belogolova
authors.forename: Valery F
authors.initials: VF
authors.lastname: Sidorkin