Yttrium siloxides

The yttrium siloxides (26) and (27) showed catalytic activity in the hydrosilylation of 1-decene. However, the neutral complex, [(Bu 0)3Si0]Y(CH2SiMe3)2 2, (26), was far superior to their cationic counterpart (26) as it completely catalyzed the hydrosilylation of 1-decene by PhSiHs at room temperature within 2 h. Cationic (27), under similar conditions, only gave a 30% conversion after 20 h and (28) did not show any activity at all. The poor performance of the cationic yttrium siloxide species was presumed to be... 

Routes to monomeric , mononuclear , monolanthanide alkoxides, enolates, siloxides and aryloxides - an expanded title which will put the scope of the article in a more concrete form. The synthesis of mononuclear alkoxides, in particularly homoleptic derivatives [1], was decisively stimulated by the discovery of high temperature superconducting ceramics based on YBa2Cu307<, where yttrium represents the lanthanide elements [2]. The support of volatile and highly soluble molecular precursors is a prerequisite for synthesizing thin films of these materials by means of MOCVD [3] and sol gel processes [4], respectively. More recently, lanthanide alkoxide reagents became established in... 

Use of less basic triphenylsiloxide ligands also allowed the isolation of mononuclear complexes (Table 1) [46,47]. In addition to the silylamide route, anhydrous nitrates and isopropoxides were employed as synthetic precursors (Eqs. 1,2). The siloxide bridges in the solvent-free dimeric systems Ln2(OSiPh3)6 are readily disrupted by donor solvents like THF, OP Bu3 or DME. The m s-THF adducts of lanthanum, cerium (Fig. 5) and yttrium adopt an approximately /ac-octahedral geometry. 

A mixed metal siloxide complex YCu(OSiPh3)4(PMe2Ph) was obtained by a simple addition reaction (Eq. 3) [48], The geometry around the yttrium atom is distorted tetrahedral. The molecule is cleaved in solution by Lewis basic solvents like THF. 

A combination of 89Y and 29Si has been used to observe the fluxionality of some yttrium alkoxides, siloxides, and adducts. Large 89Y chemical shift changes have been observed on changing the coordination number of the yttrium.79... 

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