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Published on: January 11, 2019
A stable free tetragermacyclobutadiene incorporating fused-ring bulky EMind groups
Katsunori Suzuki1, Yasuyuki Numata, Naoko Fujita
1Functional Elemento-Organic Chemistry Unit, RIKEN Advanced Science Institute (ASI), 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.
Abstract:
The first free cyclobutadiene (CBD) germanium analogue was obtained as room-temperature stable dark red crystals via the reaction of the bulky EMind-substituted 1,2-dichlorodigermene with lithium naphthalenide. The cyclic 4π-electron antiaromaticity is essentially stabilized by the polar Jahn-Teller distortion in the germanium CBD producing a planar rhombic-shaped charge-separated structure.
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