Synthesis, Spectroscopy, Electrochemical Characterization, and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Ferrocenyloligosilanes: FcSinMe2n(C6H5) (n = 1−6) and FcSi2Me4(C6H4-X) (X = m-CF3, p-Cl, p-Br, p-OMe, p-NMe2, p-CHC(CN)2)
摘要:
New ferrocenyloligosilylene aryl complexes have been synthesized, FcSi(n)Me(2n)C(6)H(5) (n = 1-6) and FcSi(2)Me(4){C6H4-X) (X = m-CF3. p-Cl, p-Br, p-OMe, p-NMe2, p-CH=C(CN)(2)). The complexes have been evaluated with respect to their electrochemical redox and NLO hyperpolarizability properties. All complexes possess oxidation potentials that reflect, systematically but weakly, the various substituents on the aryl group, thereby indicating an aryl-ferrocenyl interaction via the silicon chains. However, hyperpolarizabilities of the complexes are generally similar to those of the corresponding substituted benzenes, with the exception of the most electron-withdrawing substituents, p-Cl and p-CH=C(CN)(2).
Electronic interactions in 1-ethynyl-2-phenyltetramethyldisilanes HCCSiMe2SiMe2C6H4X
摘要:
1-Ethynyl-2-phenyltetramethyldisilanes HC=CSiMe2SiMe2C6H4X [X = NMe2 (1), H (2), CH3 (3), Br (4), CF3 (5)] are accessible from ClSiMe2SiMe2Cl, BrMgC6H4X and HC=CMgBr in a two step Grignard reaction. The crystal structure of 1 as determined by single crystal X-ray crystallography exhibits a nearly planar PhNMe2 moiety and an unusual gauche array of the phenyl and the acetylene group with respect to rotation around the Si-Si bond. Full geometry optimization (B3LYP/6-31+G**) of the gas phase structures of 1-5 affords minima for the gauche and the anti rotational isomers, both being very close in energy with a rotational barrier of only 3-5 kJ/mol. Experimental and calculated (time-dependent DFT B3LYP/TZVP) UV absorption data of 1-5 show pronounced electronic interactions of the HC=C- and the C6H4X pi-systems with the central Si-Si bond. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.