Breaking Carbon-Chlorine Bonds with the Unconventional Lewis Acid Dodecachlorocyclohexasilane.

Inorg Chem

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , North Dakota State University, Fargo , North Dakota 58108 , United States.

Published: December 2018

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

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b00631DOI Listing

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