Distibine synthesis

In sharp contrast to the intensely studied reactions of dipenteles with transition metal compounds, reactions with group 13 metal compounds are almost unknown. Only two diphosphine-borane bisadducts of Type C ([H3B]2[Me4P2], [H2(Br)B]2[Me4P2]) have been synthesized and structurally characterized65 but no diarsine, distibine or dibismuthine adducts. We, therefore, became interested in the synthesis of such compounds, focusing... 

This short review has described the synthesis of Lewis acid-base adducts and heterocyclic group 13/Sb compounds. In particular the synthesis of the hete-ro cycles required the development of new synthetic strategies. The distibine... 

The simplest representatives of this class of compounds are the antimony and bismuth analogs of tetraalkyl or tetraaryl hydrazines. Since their discovery over 80years ago [10-12], the synthesis of these compounds has been pursued in several laboratories around the world. These efforts, which have been reviewed on several occasions [3,13-18], have led to a large collection of distibines and... 

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