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More Arrows in the Quiver: New Pathways and Old Problems with Heavy Alkaline Earth Metal Diphenylmethanides
Author(s) -
Alexander Jacob S.,
RuhlandtSenge Karin
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.200305362
Subject(s) - alkaline earth metal , quiver , barium , reactivity (psychology) , chemistry , earth (classical element) , solubility , rare earth , group 2 organometallic chemistry , combinatorial chemistry , organic chemistry , metal , nanotechnology , environmental chemistry , mineralogy , materials science , molecule , physics , mathematics , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , pure mathematics , mathematical physics
Progress in the field of σ‐bonded alkaline earth organometallics has been handicapped by numerous complications, such as high reactivity, low solubility, and the limited availability of suitable starting materials. Here we present two synthetic methods, hydrocarbon elimination and desilylation, as alternative routes into this chemistry. A novel barium diphenylmethanide was prepared using these routes delineating that both methods provide a powerful, versatile synthetic access route to an extended library of organometallic alkaline earth derivatives.