Breaking Carbon-Chlorine Bonds with the Unconventional Lewis Acid Dodecachlorocyclohexasilane

Matthew T Frohlich; Kenneth J Anderson; Angel Ugrinov; Philip Boudjouk

doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b00631

Breaking Carbon-Chlorine Bonds with the Unconventional Lewis Acid Dodecachlorocyclohexasilane

Inorg Chem. 2018 Dec 3;57(23):14463-14466. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b00631. Epub 2018 Nov 8.

Authors

Matthew T Frohlich¹, Kenneth J Anderson¹, Angel Ugrinov¹, Philip Boudjouk¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , North Dakota State University , Fargo , North Dakota 58108 , United States.

PMID: 30407799
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b00631

Abstract

c-Si₆Cl₁₂ functions as a Lewis acid strong enough to abstract chloride ions from 2 mol of triphenylchloromethane to form the salt [Tr⁺]₂[Si₆Cl₁₄^2-]. This is the first example of a Lewis acid "hole" breaking a carbon-halogen bond.