The Reaction and Materials Chemistry of [Sn (O) (OSiMe ) ]: Chemical Vapour Deposition of Tin Oxide.

[Sn (O) (OSiMe ) ] and [{Sn(OSiMe ) } ] have been used to deposit SnO thin films by chemical vapour deposition. Films derived from [Sn (O) (OSiMe ) ] comprise uniform cubes and are highly oriented, whereas those deposited from [{Sn(OSiMe ) } ] are made up of a continuous non-oriented layer with oriented cubes on the surface. The structure of a co-crystal, 2 Sn (O) (OSiMe ) ⋅[Sn(OSiMe ) ] ⋅4 THF, shows that [{Sn(OSiMe ) } ], a liquid at room temperature, adopts a μ-OSiMe -bridged dimeric structure.