Isolation and Ambident Reactivity of a Chlorogermylenoid.
Treatment of 2,5-di(3,5-tert-butylphenyl)-1-lithioferrocene with GeCl2⋅dioxane afforded the corresponding chlorogermylenoid that exhibited an ambident reactivity in different solvents; it displayed a behavior characteristic for a dichlorogermylene anion in THF, while it exhibited the typical reactivity of a chlorogermylene in toluene. X-Ray diffraction analysis of a single crystal of this chlorogermylenoid, obtained from recrystallization in THF, revealed a separated-ion-pair structure in the solid state.
Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto, 611-0011, Japan.
Yuko
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Suzuki
Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto, 611-0011, Japan. sasamori@boc.kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp.
Takahiro
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5410-8488
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Sasamori
Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto, 611-0011, Japan.
Jing-Dong
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Guo
Fukui Institute for Fundamental Chemistry, Kyoto University, Sakyou-ku, Kyoto, 606-8103, Japan.
Shigeru
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Nagase
Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto, 611-0011, Japan.
Norihiro
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Tokitoh
X-ray diffraction; chlorogermylene; ferrocene; germanium; solvent effects