Synthesis and structures of silicon-, germanium- and tin-containing tungsten imido alkyl complexes (ArN)2W(CH2EMe3)2 (E = Si, Ge, Sn)

The novel silicon-, germanium- and tin-containing imido alkyl complexes of tungsten of the type (ArN)2W(CH2EMe3)2 (View the MathML sourceAr=2,6-Pr2iC6H3; E = Si (1), Ge (2), Sn (3)) have been prepared by the reactions of (ArN)2WCl2(dme) (dme = 1,2-dimethoxyethane) with heteroelement-containing alkyllithium or Grignard reagents Me3ECH2Li (E = Si, Ge), Me3ECH2MgCl (E = Ge, Sn). The title compounds were isolated in high yields as crystalline solids and characterized by elemental analysis, IR, 1H, 13C, 29Si and 119Sn NMR spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction studies. The geometry of the W atoms in the compounds can be described as a distorted tetrahedron.