Molecular structures of bis(trimethylsilyl)methyl-lithium [(LiR)_n, R = CH(SiMe₃)₂] in the vapour (gas-phase electron diffraction: a monomer, n= 1) and the crystal (X-ray: a polymer, n=∞)

1 January 1984

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications

No. 17,p. 1163-1165
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39840001163

Abstract

Gaseous bis(trimethylsilyl)methyl-lithium (LiR) at ca. 413K is a monomer with Li–C 2.03(6)Å and the SiMe₃ groups only slightly distorted from an eclipsed conformation with respect to each other; crystalline LiR is a polymer, having three ‘molecules’ of monomer in the asymmetric unit, the Li–C distances range from 2.14(3) to 2.27(2)Å and average 2.19(5)Å, <CLiC angles are 147(1), 151(1), and 152(1)°, and <LiCLi angles are 152(1)–153(1)°.

Keywords

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE
ELECTRON DIFFRACTION

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Molecular structures of bis(trimethylsilyl)methyl-lithium [(LiR)n, R = CH(SiMe3)2] in the vapour (gas-phase electron diffraction: a monomer, n= 1) and the crystal (X-ray: a polymer, n=∞)

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Molecular structures of bis(trimethylsilyl)methyl-lithium [(LiR)_n, R = CH(SiMe₃)₂] in the vapour (gas-phase electron diffraction: a monomer, n= 1) and the crystal (X-ray: a polymer, n=∞)