Facile rotation around a silicon-phosphorus double bond enabled through coordination to tungsten

Nora C. Breit, Tibor Szilvási, Shigeyoshi Inoue

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Abstract

Unprecedented E/Z isomerisation of a SiP bond was observed by temperature dependent NMR spectroscopy. DFT calculations showed that the coordination of phosphasilene to tungsten lowered the rotational barrier from 19.1 to 14.2 kcal mol-1. The thermodynamically more stable phosphinosilylene tungsten complex is formed at elevated temperatures through substituent migration.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)11272-11275
Number of pages4
JournalChemical Communications
Volume51
Issue number56
DOIs
StatePublished - 18 Jul 2015
Externally publishedYes

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