Abstract
Oxalic acid dimethylester and the oxalic acid methylester-N-methylamides 2 and 4, resp., react with antimony(V) chloride to yield the 1 : 1 addition compound 5 or the cyclic tetrachloroantimony(V) compounds 1, 3 and 6, resp., which represent SbO2C2 and SbONC2 five ring systems, resp. Li oxalic acid methylester-N-methylimide (9) and anti-mony(V) chloride gives the bicyclic octachloro-N-methylamido oxalato-O,O′-O,N-diantimony(V) (10). The crystal and molecular structure of tetrachloro-N-methylamino oxalato-O,O′-antimony(V) (3) is determined by X-ray analysis. The vibrational and 1H NMR spectra of 2-10 are reported and discussed.