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Preparation of Contiguous Bisaziridines for Regioselective Ring-Opening Reactions
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{2,2'-[(1,2-Di-cyano-ethene-1,2-di-yl)bis-(nitrilo-methanylyl-idyne)]diphenolato-κ(4) O,N,N',O'}(methanol-κO)zinc
Zhi-Chun Wang1, Jing Chu, Shu-Zhong Zhan
1College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
In the title complex, [Zn(C18H10N4O2)(CH4O)], the Zn(2+) cation is located on a mirror plane and is coordinated by a tetradentate Schiff base ligand anion (L (2-)) and a methanol mol-ecule. The Zn(2+) cation is surrounded by two N atoms and two O atoms from L (2-), in a nearly planar configuration, and one methanol O atom, forming a slightly distorted square-pyramidal geometry. The methanol molecule is disordered over two sets of sites in a 0.5:0.5 ratio. In the crystal, O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the mol-ecules into chains parallel to [001].
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Conjugated dienes are compounds characterized by the presence of alternating double and single bonds. In a conjugated system like 1,3-butadiene, the unhybridized 2p orbital on each carbon overlaps continuously, allowing the π electrons to be delocalized across the entire molecule. In contrast, this type of overlap does not occur in cumulated and isolated dienes, such as 2,3-pentadiene and 1,4-pentadiene, respectively. Instead, the π electrons remain localized between the double...
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