Phosphine-Functionalized Silicon Cubane

Metal-Coordinatable

By introducing phosphine groups onto the silicon cubane framework, it can act as a bidentate ligand and undergo selective oxidative addition with Cu(I) to form a bis(silyl)copper complex.

Li, Yang · Cui, Chunming

Inorganic Chemistry 2023

Specifications

octasilacubanes Ar Ar
{'zh': '2', 'en': '2'} Si8

Advantages

Reaction with 2 equiv CuCl leads to selective oxidative addition to form bis(silyl)copper complex

Copper cation adopts a unique square-planar four-coordinate geometry