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Discovery and Synthesis Optimization of Isoreticular Al(III) Phosphonate-Based Metal-Organic Framework Compounds Using High-Throughput Methods
Published on: October 6, 2023
Synthesis and structural characterization of aluminum iminophosphonamide complexes
Bijan Nekoueishahraki1, Herbert W Roesky, Gerald Schwab
1Institut für Anorganische Chemie, Universität Gottingen, Tammannstrasse 4, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.
Abstract:
Monoanionic iminophosphonamide ligands have a N-P-N linkage and undergo four-membered ring N,N-ligand formation when treated with aluminum compounds. The reaction of LLi (L = [Ph(2)P(NSiMe(3))(2)]) with equivalent amounts of AlCl(3) and AlMeCl(2) in toluene afforded LAlCl(2) (3) and LAlClMe (4), respectively. L(2)AlH (5), LAlEt(2) (6), and LAl(NMe(2))(2) (7) respectively were prepared by the reaction of LH with AlH(3) x NMe(3), AlEt(3), and Al(NMe(2))(3) in n-hexane. Subsequently compounds 3-7 were characterized by elemental analysis, (1)H, (13)C, and (31)P NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallographic studies (for 3, 4, 5, and 7).
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