Dichlorosilylene: A High Temperature Transient Species to an Indispensable Building Block

Ghadwal R, Azhakar R, Roesky HW (2012)
Accounts of Chemical Research 46(2): 444-456.

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Ghadwal, RajendraUniBi ; Azhakar, Ramachandran; Roesky, Herbert W.
Abstract / Bemerkung
Isolating stable compounds with low-valent main group elements have long been an attractive research topic, because several of these compounds can mimic transition metals in activating small molecules. In addition, compounds with heavier low-valent main group elements have fundamentally different electronic properties when compared with their lighter congeners. Among group 14 elements, the heavier analogues of carbenes (R2C:) such as silylenes (R2Si:), germylenes (R2Ge:), stannylenes (R2Sn:), and plumbylenes (R2Pb:) are the most studied species with low-valent elements. The first stable carbene and silylene species were isolated as N-heterocycles. Among the dichlorides of group 14 elements, CCl2 and SiCl2 are highly reactive intermediates and play an important role in many chemical transformations. GeCl2 can be stabilized as a dioxane adduct, whereas SnCl2 and PbCl2 are available as stable compounds. In the Siemens process, which produces electronic grade silicon by thermal decomposition of HSiCl3 at 1150 °C, chemists proposed dichlorosilylene (SiCl2) as an intermediate, which further dissociates to Si and SiCl4. Similarly, base induced disproportionation of HSiCl3 or Si2Cl6 to SiCl2 is a known reaction. Trapping these products in situ with organic substrates suggested the mechanism for this reaction. In addition, West and co-workers reported a polymeric trans-chain like perchloropolysilane (SiCl2)n. However, the isolation of a stable free monomeric dichlorosilylene remained a challenge. The first successful attempt of taming SiCl2 was the isolation of monochlorosilylene PhC(NtBu)2SiCl supported by an amidinate ligand in 2006. In 2009, we succeeded in isolating N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) stabilized dichlorosilylene (NHC)SiCl2 with a three coordinate silicon atom. (The NHC is 1,3-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene (IPr) or 1,3-bis(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene (IMes).) Notably, this method allows for the almost quantitative synthesis of (NHC)SiCl2 without using any hazardous reducing agents. Dehydrochlorination of HSiCl3 with NHC under mild reaction conditions produces (NHC)SiCl2. We can separate the insoluble side product (NHC)HCl readily and recycle it to form NHC. The high yield and facile access to dichlorosilylene allow us to explore its chemistry to a greater extent. In this Account, we describe the results using (NHC)SiCl2 primarily from our laboratory, including findings by other researchers. We emphasize the novel silicon compounds, which supposedly existed only as short-lived species. We also discuss silaoxirane, silaimine with tricoordinate silicon atom, silaisonitrile, and silaformyl chloride. In analogy with N-heterocyclic silylenes (NHSis), oxidative addition reactions of organic substrates with (NHC)SiCl2 produce Si(IV) compounds. The presence of the chloro-substituents both on (NHC)SiCl2 and its products allows metathesis reactions to produce novel silicon compounds with new functionality. These substituents also offer the possibility to synthesize interesting compounds with low-valent silicon by further reduction. Coordination of NHC to the silicon increases the acidity of the backbone protons on the imidazole ring, and therefore (NHC)SiCl2 can functionalize NHC at the C-4 or C-5 position.
Erscheinungsjahr
2012
Zeitschriftentitel
Accounts of Chemical Research
Band
46
Ausgabe
2
Seite(n)
444-456
ISSN
0001-4842
eISSN
1520-4898
Page URI
https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2951034

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Ghadwal R, Azhakar R, Roesky HW. Dichlorosilylene: A High Temperature Transient Species to an Indispensable Building Block. Accounts of Chemical Research. 2012;46(2):444-456.
Ghadwal, R., Azhakar, R., & Roesky, H. W. (2012). Dichlorosilylene: A High Temperature Transient Species to an Indispensable Building Block. Accounts of Chemical Research, 46(2), 444-456. https://doi.org/10.1021/ar300196u
Ghadwal, Rajendra, Azhakar, Ramachandran, and Roesky, Herbert W. 2012. “Dichlorosilylene: A High Temperature Transient Species to an Indispensable Building Block”. Accounts of Chemical Research 46 (2): 444-456.
Ghadwal, R., Azhakar, R., and Roesky, H. W. (2012). Dichlorosilylene: A High Temperature Transient Species to an Indispensable Building Block. Accounts of Chemical Research 46, 444-456.
Ghadwal, R., Azhakar, R., & Roesky, H.W., 2012. Dichlorosilylene: A High Temperature Transient Species to an Indispensable Building Block. Accounts of Chemical Research, 46(2), p 444-456.
R. Ghadwal, R. Azhakar, and H.W. Roesky, “Dichlorosilylene: A High Temperature Transient Species to an Indispensable Building Block”, Accounts of Chemical Research, vol. 46, 2012, pp. 444-456.
Ghadwal, R., Azhakar, R., Roesky, H.W.: Dichlorosilylene: A High Temperature Transient Species to an Indispensable Building Block. Accounts of Chemical Research. 46, 444-456 (2012).
Ghadwal, Rajendra, Azhakar, Ramachandran, and Roesky, Herbert W. “Dichlorosilylene: A High Temperature Transient Species to an Indispensable Building Block”. Accounts of Chemical Research 46.2 (2012): 444-456.

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