Reactive Dimerization of an N-Heterocyclic Plumbylene: C-H Activation with PbII
Robin Guthardt1, Jan Oetzel1, Julia I Schweizer2
1Institut für Chemie, Universität Kassel, Heinrich-Plett-Strasse 40, 34132, Kassel, Germany.
Abstract:
The N-heterocyclic plumbylene [Fe{(η5 -C5 H4 )NSiMe3 }2 Pb:] is in equilibrium with an unprecedented dimer in solution, whose formation involves the cleavage of a strong C-H bond and concomitant formation of a Pb-C and an N-H bond. According to a mechanistic DFT assessment, dimer formation does not involve direct PbII insertion into a cyclopentadienyl C-H bond, but is best described as an electrophilic substitution. The bulkier plumbylene [Fe{(η5 -C5 H4 )NSitBuMe2 }2 Pb:] shows no dimerization, but compensates its electrophilicity by the formation of an intramolecular Fe-Pb bond.
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