Complexation of aromatic dichalcogen ligands to germanium
Date
24/02/2017Metadata
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Abstract
Eight novel germanium compounds of the type [R2Ge(E-Ar-E)], where R = Me, Ph; E-Ar-E = an aromatic bidentate chalcogen ligand, were successfully synthesised. The effects of changing 3 variables within the series were investigated. These variables included the chalcogen (E = S/Se), aromatic backbone (Ar = Nap/Biphenyl) and R group (Me/Ph) employed. The choice of aromatic backbone had the greatest effect on the structure. A substantial change in geometry around the germanium centre was observed within the solid state structures depending on whether the backbone was naphthalene or biphenyl. This affected the stability of the compound and resulted in the visible decomposition of two selenium complexes over several days. All novel compounds were characterised by multinuclear NMR, IR, mass spectroscopy and single crystal X-ray diffraction.
Citation
Meigh , C B E , Nejman , P S , Slawin , A M Z & Woollins , J D 2017 , ' Complexation of aromatic dichalcogen ligands to germanium ' , Inorganica Chimica Acta , vol. 456 , pp. 120-127 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ica.2016.10.038
Publication
Inorganica Chimica Acta
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0020-1693Type
Journal article
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© 2016 Published by Elsevier B.V. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ica.2016.10.038
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