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1State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry and College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
A new strategy for the introduction of a second type of Si atom to silicon cubanes has been developed starting from the tricyclic hexasilane dianion [Ar6Si6]2- (Ar = 2,4,6-Me3C6H2). Treatment of the dianion with Ar'SiCl3, followed by KC8, gave new types of octasilacubanes Ar6Ar'2Si8 [Ar' = 2,4,6-iPr2C6H2 (3a), 2-Ph2PC6H4 (3b)] in high yields. Remarkably, treatment of cubane 3b bearing with two phosphine groups with 2 equiv of CuCl in CH2Cl2 yielded the bis(silyl)copper complex via the selective oxidative addition of the newly formed Si-Si bond to Cu ion. Single-crystal X-ray analysis indicated the unique square-planar, four-coordinate Cu cation paired with the [CuCl2]- counteranion.
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