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Alkali and Alkaline Earth Metal Derivatives of Disila-Bridged Podands: Coordination Chemistry and Structural Diversity
Within this study, the synthesis
and coordination chemistry of open-chain ligands bearing disila-units
is presented. Instead of basic 1:1 complexes, structural diversity
was discovered in the variety of ligand and salt. Stable complexes
of alkali and alkaline earth metal complexes were obtained by equimolar
reactions of different salts with the disila-bridged podands 8,9-disila-EO5
(<b>1</b>) and 11,12-disila-EO7 (<b>2</b>) (EO5 = pentaethylene
glycol; EO7 = heptaethylene glycol). The respective alkaline earth
metal complexes of the type [CaÂ(8,9-disila-EO5)Â(OTf)<sub>2</sub>]
(<b>3</b>), [SrÂ(8,9-disila-EO5)ÂI<sub>2</sub>] (<b>5</b>), [SrÂ(11,12-disila-EO7)ÂI]I (<b>6</b>), and [BaÂ(11,12-disila-EO7)ÂOTf<sub>2</sub>] (<b>7</b>) (OTf = CF<sub>3</sub>SO<sub>3</sub><sup>–</sup>) were characterized via single-crystal X-ray diffraction
analyses. Within the reaction of the alkali metal salt NaPF<sub>6</sub> with <b>1</b>, the sodium ion acts as a template during the
complexation process. Under elimination of one molecule of diethylene
glycol, the dinuclear species [Na<sub>2</sub>(8,9,17,18-tetrasila-EO8)Â(PF<sub>6</sub>)<sub>2</sub>]·EO2 (<b>4</b>) (EO8 = octaethylen
glycol, EO2 = diethylene glycol) is obtained, in which the sodium
cations are 7-fold coordinated within a disilane-bearing framework.
The reaction of <b>2</b> with CsOTf failed, leading to recrystallization
of anhydrous CsOTf. By means of DFT calculations it was shown that
the disila-bearing ligands are burdened with negative hyperconjugation
interactions between the silicon and the oxygen atoms, but the coordination
by sufficiently hard cations can easily overcompensate the competing
polarization. In contrast, soft Lewis acids barely share interactions
with silicon-bonded oxygen atoms. All findings are consistent with
observations made in solution according to <sup>29</sup>Si NMR spectroscopical
studies