Affiliation:
1. Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry Budapest University of Technology and Economics Műegyetem rkp. 3. 1111 Budapest Hungary
2. ELKH-BME Computation Driven Chemistry Research Group Műegyetem rkp. 3. 1111 Budapest Hungary
3. Chemical Crystallography Research Laboratory and Institute for Organic Chemistry Research Centre for Natural Sciences Magyar Tudósok körútja 2 1519 Budapest Hungary
Abstract
AbstractThe reduction of 1,1‐dichloro‐2,5‐bistrimethylsilyl‐3,4‐diphenylsilole to silolide dianion by alkali metals was investigated. As previously demonstrated, the outcome of the reaction depends strongly on the applied alkali metal, solvent, reaction conditions, and substituent pattern. We showed that lithium is a powerful reducing agent in THF or DME solvents, the reaction is even faster than the same reaction with sodium. The X‐ray structures of the corresponding dilithio and disodium silolide dianion were investigated, interestingly recrystallization of the dilithio salt results in a coordination polymer. In order to support the synthetic work DFT calculations were performed.