The Chlorido-Bismuth Dication: A Potent Lewis Acid Captured in a Hepta-Coordinate Species with a Stereochemically Active Lone Pair.

ABSTRACT: The stabilization of simple, highly reactive cationic species in molecular complexes represents an important strategy to isolate and characterize compounds with uncommon or even unprecedented structural motifs and properties. Here we report the synthesis, isolation, and full characterization of chlorido-bismuth dications, stabilized only by monodentate dimethylsulfoxide (dmso) ligands: [BiCl(dmso)₆][BF₄]₂ (1) and [BiCl(μ₂-dmso)(dmso)₄]₂[BF₄]₄ (2). These compounds show unusual distorted pentagonal bipyramidal coordination geometries along with high Lewis acidities and have been analyzed by multinuclear NMR spectroscopy, elemental analysis, IR spectroscopy, single-crystal X-ray diffraction,

SUBMITTER: Fetoh A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11220759 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature