title: Oxidative Addition of Disulfides, Alkyl Sulfides, and Diphosphides to an Aluminum(I) Center.
abstract: The aluminum(I) compound NacNacAl (1) reacts with diphenyl disulfide and diethyl sulfide to form the respective four-coordinate bis(phenyl sulfide) complex NacNacAl(SPh)2 (2) and alkyl thiolate aluminum complex NacNacAlEt(SEt) (3). As well, reaction of 1 with tetraphenyl diphosphine furnishes the bis(diphenyl phosphido) complex NacNacAl(PPh2)2 (4). Production of 3 and 4 are the first examples of C(sp(3))-S and R2P-PR2 activation by a main-group element complex. All three complexes were characterized by multinuclear NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystal structure analysis. Furthermore, a variable-temperature NMR spectroscopic study was undertaken on 4 to study its dynamic behavior in solution.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Brock University , 1812 Sir Isaac Brock Way, St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1, Canada.
authors.forename: Terry
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Chu
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Brock University , 1812 Sir Isaac Brock Way, St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1, Canada.
authors.forename: Yaroslav
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Boyko
authors.affiliation: X-ray Core Facility, Faculty of Science, University of Ottawa , 150 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada.
authors.forename: Ilia
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Korobkov
authors.affiliation: N. S. Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry , 31 Leninskii Prospekt, Moscow 119991, Russia.
authors.forename: Lyudmila G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Kuzmina
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Durham University , South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Judith A K
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Howard
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Brock University , 1812 Sir Isaac Brock Way, St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1, Canada.
authors.forename: Georgii I
authors.initials: GI
authors.lastname: Nikonov