Abstract
Triphenyl silicon hydroperoxide and its isostructural germanium complex were characterized by single crystal X-ray analysis revealing H-bonding of two triphenylhydroperoxocomplexes, with each hydroperoxo ligand acting as a hydrogen donor and a hydrogen acceptor. Only two other structures with localized protons of hydroperoxo complexes' main group elements (boron and tin) are known (compared to 130 p-block element peroxo compounds) and both exhibit the same hydroperoxo double hydrogen bonding motif. The reaction of the hydroperoxo complexes with triphenylgermanium chloride to give the dinuclear peroxobridged germanium complex demonstrates the higher reactivity of the hydroperoxo moieties compared to the peroxo moiety. DFT calculations provide an estimate of the hydroperoxo double hydrogen bond energies: 62.8 and 63.6 kJ mol-1 for triphenyl silicon, 63.6 and 65 kJ mol-1 for the germanium complex.
| Original language | American English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1922-1928 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | CrystEngComm |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue number | 11 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 21 Mar 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (grant no. 19-73-10208). X-ray diffraction study was performed at the Centre of Shared Equipment of IGIC RAS within the State Assignment on Fundamental Research to the Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry. A. G. M. thank Prof. M. V. Vener for a possibility to conduct computations using Crystal09.
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