Breaking Carbon-Chlorine Bonds with the Unconventional Lewis Acid Dodecachlorocyclohexasilane

Frohlich MT; Anderson KJ; Ugrinov A; Boudjouk P

Inorganic Chemistry, Vol.57, No.23, 14463-14466, 2018

DOI10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b00631 Export Citation

Breaking Carbon-Chlorine Bonds with the Unconventional Lewis Acid Dodecachlorocyclohexasilane

Frohlich MT, Anderson KJ, Ugrinov A, Boudjouk P

c-Si6Cl12 functions as a Lewis acid strong enough to abstract chloride ions from 2 mol of triphenylchloromethane to form the salt [Tr+](2)[Si6Cl142-]. This is the first example of a Lewis acid "hole" breaking a carbon-halogen bond.