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- Title
Tuning Reactivities of tert‐Butyllithium by the Addition of Stoichiometric Amounts of Tetrahydrofuran.
- Authors
Kleinheider, Johannes; Schrimpf, Tobias; Scheel, Rebecca; Mairath, Tristan; Hermann, Andreas; Knepper, Kathrin; Strohmann, Carsten
- Abstract
In alkyllithium chemistry the highest reactivity has historically been linked to the smallest degree of aggregation possible. Since tert‐butyllithium is known to form a monomer in tetrahydrofuran solution, using just stoichiometric amounts of the lewis base to selectively form a dimeric species seemed irrational. In this study, we showed a considerable increase of the reactivity of t‐BuLi when using stoichiometric amounts of THF in the non‐polar solvent n‐pentane in order to enable the deprotonation of simple methyl silanes and other low C−H−acidic substrates. In this context, we were able to obtain the corresponding aggregates of t‐BuLi with the ligand THF in suspension and as crystalline solids and investigate them by single crystal X‐ray structural analysis, in situ FTIR spectroscopy and quantum chemical calculations. Furthermore, we were able to explain the enhanced reactivity of t‐BuLi with stoichiometric amounts of THF on the basis of structural features of the bridged dimer obtained under these conditions. With these findings, we present a new target in the aggregation of alkyllithium reagents: the selectively formed "frustrated" aggregates!
- Subjects
TETRAHYDROFURAN; LEWIS bases; CRYSTALS; FOURIER transform infrared spectroscopy; REACTIVITY (Chemistry); DIMERS
- Publication
Chemistry - A European Journal, 2024, Vol 30, Issue 16, p1
- ISSN
0947-6539
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/chem.202304226