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A Neutral Three‐Membered 2π Aromatic Disilaborirane and the Unique Conversion into a Four‐Membered BSi 2 N‐Ring
Author(s) -
Sarkar Samir Kumar,
Chaliha Rinkumoni,
Siddiqui Mujahuddin M.,
Banerjee Samya,
Münch Annika,
HerbstIrmer Regine,
Stalke Dietmar,
Jemmis Eluvathingal D.,
Roesky Herbert W.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
angewandte chemie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1521-3757
pISSN - 0044-8249
DOI - 10.1002/ange.202009638
Subject(s) - natural bond orbital , chemistry , ring (chemistry) , aromaticity , density functional theory , silylene , boron , silicon , derivative (finance) , crystallography , computational chemistry , molecule , organic chemistry , financial economics , economics
We report the design, synthesis, structure, bonding, and reaction of a neutral 2π aromatic three‐membered disilaborirane. The disilaborirane is synthesized by a facile one‐pot reductive dehalogenation of amidinato‐silylene chloride and dibromoarylborane with potassium graphite. Despite the tetravalent arrangement of atoms around silicon, the three‐membered silicon‐boron‐silicon ring is aromatic, as evidenced by NMR spectroscopy, nucleus independent chemical shift calculations, first‐principles electronic structure studies using density functional theory (DFT) and natural bond orbital (NBO) based bonding analysis. Trimethylsilylnitrene, generated in situ, inserts in the Si−Si bond of disilaborirane to obtain a four‐membered heterocycle 1‐aza‐2,3‐disila‐4‐boretidine derivative. Both the heterocycles are fully characterized by X‐ray crystallography.