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Palladium N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes: Synthesis from Benzimidazolium Salts and Catalytic Activity in Carbon-carbon Bond-forming Reactions
Published on: July 30, 2017
Bis(2-naphthyl-meth-yl)diphenyl-silane
Thomas Blake Monroe1, Andy A Thomas, Daniel S Jones
1Department of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA.
Abstract:
The title compound, C(34)H(28)Si, was prepared as an inter-nal standard for diffusion-ordered NMR spectroscopy. The four ligands are arranged tetra-hedrally around the Si atom. The two naphthalene systems are nearly perpendicular, making an angle of 86.42 (4)° with one another. A naphthalene system and a phenyl ring are also nearly perpendicular, making an angle of 86.18 (6)° with one another. In the crystal, the mol-ecules pack in columns parallel to the a axis, and exhibit arene C-H⋯π(arene) inter-actions both within and between columns.

