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Synthesis of Hypervalent Iodonium Alkynyl Triflates for the Application of Generating Cyanocarbenes
Published on: September 8, 2013
Bis[5-(2-pyrid-yl)pyrazine-2-carbonitrile]-silver(I) tetra-fluorido-borate
Zi-Jia Wang1, Fan Zhang, Chong-Qing Wan
1Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
In the title mononuclear complex, [Ag(C(10)H(6)N(4))(2)]BF(4), the Ag(I) atom adopts a square-planar N(4 )coordination geometry and is surrounded by two 5-(2-pyrid-yl)pyrazine-2-carbonitrile ligands. The tetra-fluorido-borate anions link the mononuclear cations through inter-molecular C-H⋯F hydrogen-bonding inter-actions, forming an infinite tape structure along [110]. Other weak inter-actions occur: π-π stacking with centroid-centroid distances of 3.820 (2) and 3.898 (1) Å between pyridyl rings and 3.610 (2) and 3.926 (2) Å between pyrazinyl rings as well as F⋯π contacts involving the tetra-fluorido-borate anions and pyrazine rings [F⋯centroid = 2.999 (3) Å]; these combine with the hydrogen-bonding inter-actions to link the mononuclear cations into a three-dimensional supra-molecular architecture.
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