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One-Step Trimethylstannylation of Benzyl and Alkyl Halides
journal contribution
posted on 2016-09-19, 00:00 authored by Jianbing Jiang, Robert H. Crabtree, Gary W. BrudvigTrialkylstannanes are good leaving
groups that have been used for
the formation of carbon–metal bonds to electrode surfaces for
analyses of single-molecule conductivity. Here, we report the multistep
synthesis of two amide-containing compounds that are of interest in
studies of molecular rectifiers. Each molecule has two trimethylstannyl
units, one linked by a methylene and the other by an ethylene group.
To account for the very different reactivities of the parent halides,
a new methodology for one-step trimethylstannylation was developed
and optimized.