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Hydroalumination of Oligoalkynylgermanes and -digermanes – Reactions with Heterocumulenes by Al–C or Ge–C Bond Activation and Formation of a Hexazenedialuminum Complex
Uhl, Werner,Honacker, Christian,Lawrence, Neil,Hepp, Alexander,Schürmann, Lina,Layh, Marcus
, p. 945 - 955 (2018)
Hydroalumination of the dialkynylgermane Ph2Ge(C≡CtBu)2 (1) and the digermanes Phn(tBuC≡C)3–nGe–Ge(C≡CtBu)3–nPhn (2a: n = 2; 2b: n = 1) with two equivalents of H–AltBu2 or H–AlEt2 yielded the mixed Al/Ge compounds Ph2Ge[C(AltBu2)=CH-tBu]2 (3), [Ph2GeC(AltBu2)=CH-tBu]2 (4a), and [Ph2GeC(AlEt2)=CH-tBu]2 (4b). Reactions of 2b with both aluminum hydrides afforded inseparable mixtures of products. 3 reacted with heterocumulenes by retrohydroalumination. Phenyl isocyanate gave insertion of the C=N group into the resulting Ge–C(≡C–tBu) bond (5), whereas the NCS and NCN groups of phenyl isothiocyanate and a carbodiimide inserted into Al–Cvinyl bonds (6 and 7) with unaffected terminal Ge–C≡C–tBu moieties. The generation of 5 represents the first example of the insertion of a heterocumulene into a Ge–C bond, which may be favored by the activation of the isocyanate group by the Lewis acidic Al atom and the increased polarity of the N=C=O fragment as determined by NBO calculations. The reactions of the digermanes 4 with heterocumulenes were unselective and afforded inseparable mixtures. Treatment of 4a with the azide (4-tBu)C6H4CH2–N3 led interestingly to reductive coupling of two azide molecules, and the hexazene complex (tBuC6H4CH2N3–N3C6H4tBu)(AltBu2)2 (8) was isolated in moderate yield. Six nitrogen atoms form a dianionic chain, which coordinated two AltBu2 fragments by formation of two joint AlN4 heterocycles.
