The laddering principle in lithium amide chemistry: the crystal and molecular structure of the pyrrolididolithium adduct [H2C(CH2)3NLi]3·MeN(CH2CH2NMe2)2

ARMSTRONG, D R and BARR, D and CLEGG, W and Mulvey, Robert and REED, D and SNAITH, R and WADE, K (1986) The laddering principle in lithium amide chemistry: the crystal and molecular structure of the pyrrolididolithium adduct [H2C(CH2)3NLi]3·MeN(CH2CH2NMe2)2. Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications (11). pp. 869-870. ISSN 0022-4936 (https://doi.org/10.1039/C39860000869)

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Abstract

The title compound, {[H2[graphic omitted]NLi]3·PMDETA}n, (1)(PMDETA = pentamethyldiethylenetriamine), is shown to be the first example of an organonitrogen–lithium laddered structure, consisting in the solid (n= 2) of two attached (NLi)2 rings, or alternatively four (N–Li) rungs, with two terminal NLi units complexes by PMDETA, so preventing further association; cryoscopic and 7Li n.m.r. spectroscopic studies imply that extension of the ladder framework can occur in arene solutions of (1), and these results, together with those from ab initio m.o. calculations on model systems, suggest that similar compounds of type (RR′NLi·xdonor)n, but of various ladder lengths, should be preparable.

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ARMSTRONG, D R, BARR, D, CLEGG, W, Mulvey, Robert ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1015-2564, REED, D, SNAITH, R and WADE, K;
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