title: One-Step Trimethylstannylation of Benzyl and Alkyl Halides.
abstract: Trialkylstannanes are good leaving groups that have been used for the formation of carbon-metal bonds to electrode surfaces for analyses of single-molecule conductivity. Here, we report the multistep synthesis of two amide-containing compounds that are of interest in studies of molecular rectifiers. Each molecule has two trimethylstannyl units, one linked by a methylene and the other by an ethylene group. To account for the very different reactivities of the parent halides, a new methodology for one-step trimethylstannylation was developed and optimized.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Yale University , New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States.|Energy Sciences Institute, Yale University , West Haven, Connecticut 06516, United States.
authors.forename: Jianbing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Yale University , New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States.|Energy Sciences Institute, Yale University , West Haven, Connecticut 06516, United States.
authors.forename: Robert H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Crabtree
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Yale University , New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States.|Energy Sciences Institute, Yale University , West Haven, Connecticut 06516, United States.
authors.forename: Gary W
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Brudvig