Hypercoordinate silicon

Kost, Daniel, and Kalikhman, Irma, Hydrazide-Based Hypercoordinate Silicon... 

Summarizing the available bonding information, decamethylsilicocene (1) is regarded as an electron-rich silicon(II) compound containing a hypercoordinated silicon atom which is sandwiched between two rather weakly 7i-bonded pentamethylcyclopentadienyl ligands and thus is effectively shielded the lone-pair orbital at silicon is part of the frontier orbitals of the molecule. 

Besides rhodium catalysts, palladium complex also can catalyze the addition of aryltrialkoxysilanes to a,(3-unsaturated carbonyl compounds (ketones, aldehydes) and nitroalkenes (Scheme 60).146 The addition of equimolar amounts of SbCl3 and tetrabutylammonium fluoride (TBAF) was necessary for this reaction to proceed smoothly. The arylpalladium complex, generated by the transmetallation from a putative hypercoordinate silicon compound, was considered to be the catalytically active species. 

Hypercoordinated Silicon Complexes with Mixed Ligands 488... 

Hypercoordinated Silicon Complexes with Ligands Derived from Hydrazine 491... 

The chemistry of hypercoordinated silicon compounds has continued to be an extremely active research field in recent years. Some of this interest is driven by the observation that many hypercoordinated silicon species possess a... 

It has been well recognized that the hydrolysis of alkoxysilanes and chlorosilanes is effectively catalyzed when fluoride anions are present due to formation of hypercoordinated silicon intermediates.803 More in-depth studies by Bassindale et al. showed that the reaction of PhSi(OEt)3 with stoichiometric amounts of Bu4NF surprisingly yields an encapsulation complex, namely tetrabutylammonium octaphenyloctasilsesquioxane fluoride 830, in which the fluorine atom is situated inside the cubic siloxane cage (Scheme 114). The Si--F distance of average 2.65 A is shorter than the sum of van der Waals radii (3.57 A), which renders the coordination number of the silicon atoms at [4+1]. 

Finally, a group of hypercoordinated silicon compounds, the decamethyl silicocenes, in which the formal silicon coordination number is ten, is worthy of mention in connection with this chapter. These analogs of ferrocene have been studied extensively232, and are described in detail in Jutzi s chapter in this volume. 

Hypercoordinated fluorosilicate anions, preparation, 3, 484 Hypercoordinated silicon complexes... 

Another important feature of the extracoordinate silicon compounds (Scheme 7.14) is the increase in natural atomic charge at the central atom compared to the tetracoordinate precursors [69]. The counter-intuitive increase in the positive charge on silicon, which becomes even more substantial in the case of anionic nucleophiles, such as F , is compensated by a more negative character of the surrounding groups (X), and this results in an enhanced ionic nature of the Si-X bond. This polarization then favors intermolecular charge-dipole interaction, which results in an increased Lewis acidity of the hypercoordinate silicon [70]. 

In the rearrangement reaction leading to 10a and 11a the nitrogen atom which is nearest and most accessible to the chloromethyl group displaces the chlorine atom in an internal SN2 type substitution, followed by migration of the displaced chloride to silicon. This rearrangement leads to the two different products, with five- and six-membered chelate cycles, 10a and 11a. While five-membered chelate cycles as in 10a are common in hypercoordinate silicon chemistry, the formation of six-membered chelates (11a) is unique.33,34... 

The hexacoordinate silicon complexes discussed here are highly flexible compounds, like some other hypercoordinate silicon compounds,1 6 and undergo a variety of fluxional reorganization reactions, observable by temperature-dependent NMR spectroscopy. The dimethylamino-coordinated bis-chelates 30-38 are particularly suitable for an NMR study of ligand-site exchange processes (inter- or intramolecular), because of the pairs of diastereotopic V-methyl groups, which under certain... 

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