Facile rotation around a silicon–phosphorus double bond enabled through coordination to tungsten?

Chemical Communications Pub Date: 2015-06-10 DOI: 10.1039/C5CC04247J

Abstract

Unprecedented E/Z isomerisation of a Si[double bond, length as m-dash]P bond was observed by temperature dependent NMR spectroscopy. DFT calculations showed that the coordination of phosphasilene to tungsten lowered the rotational barrier from 19.1 to 14.2 kcal mol?1. The thermodynamically more stable phosphinosilylene tungsten complex is formed at elevated temperatures through substituent migration.

Graphical abstract: Facile rotation around a silicon–phosphorus double bond enabled through coordination to tungsten
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