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Silicon Carbamates by CO<sub>2</sub> Fixation: Brønsted Acid Labile Precursor of a Lewis Superacid
Treatment of Lewis superacidic Si(catCl)2(MeCN)2 and tetramethylpiperidine (TMP) or hexahydropyrimidopyrimidine
(hppH) with CO2 leads to an FLP-type formation of silicon
carbamates. The employed Lewis base determines the hapticity at silicon
and the reactivity of the carbamates in subsequent transformations.
Upon treatment with a Brønsted acid, the carbamates liberate
CO2 and reactivate the Lewis superacidic behavior of 1. Hence, the CO2 fixation products serve as valuable
surrogates for Si(catCl)2 that circumvent its
insolubility in organic solvents. Quantum chemical computations support
all of the experimental observations