Guilty and charged: a stable solution of the hexamethylbenzene radical cation as a ligand forming oxidising agent. Issue 72 (31st July 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Schorpp, Marcel; Rein, Stephan; Weber, Stefan; Scherer, Harald; Krossing, Ingo
• Is Part Of: Chemical communications. Volume 54:Issue 72(2018)
• Page Start: 10036
• Page End: 10039
• Publication Date: 2018-07-31
• Subjects: Chemistry -- Periodicals; 540
• DOI: 10.1039/c8cc04690e
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1359-7345

Abstract

Abstract : Arene radical cations as oxidising agents with intended non-innocent behaviour for the synthesis of subvalent Group 13 complex salts. Abstract : While it is often longed for very gentle oxidising agents with ideally close to no interaction with the generated substrate, it may sometimes be beneficial to have an oxidising agent at hand which is able to stabilise a reactive species directly after its generation. Here we present the synthesis of the hexamethylbenzene radical cation as a ligand forming oxidising agent. Its utility was demonstrated by the exemplarily chosen access to the mono-arene complex-cations of univalent gallium and indium [M(C6 Me6 )] + [Al(OR F )4 ] − (M = Ga and In).