Crown ether complexes of HPCl6

Zin-Min Tun; Matthew J Panzner; Vincenzo Scionti; Douglas Medvetz; Chrys Wesdemiotis; Wiley J Youngs; Claire Tessier

doi:10.1021/ja1064697

Crown ether complexes of HPCl6

J Am Chem Soc. 2010 Dec 8;132(48):17059-61. doi: 10.1021/ja1064697. Epub 2010 Nov 16.

Authors

Zin-Min Tun¹, Matthew J Panzner, Vincenzo Scionti, Douglas Medvetz, Chrys Wesdemiotis, Wiley J Youngs, Claire Tessier

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325-3601, USA.

PMID: 21080621
DOI: 10.1021/ja1064697

Abstract

The reactions of HCl, PCl5, and a crown ether (12-crown-4 or 18-crown-6) in CHCl3 under anaerobic conditions give complexes of the superacid HPCl6: [H(12-crown-4)][PCl6 ] and [H(18-crown-6)2][PCl6]. The crystal structures indicate that the proton lies roughly in the center of the 12-crown-4 molecule in [H(12-crown-4)][PCl6 ] whereas it lies between two oxygen atoms of two different 18-crown-6 molecules in [H(18-crown-6)2][PCl6].