Silanone
A silanone in chemistry is the silicon analogue of a ketone. The general description for this class of organic compounds is R1R2Si=O with silicon connected to a terminal oxygen atom via a double bond and also with two organic residues (R).[1] Silanones are extremely reactive [1] and until 2013 have only been detected by argon matrix isolation [2][3] or in the gas phase [4] but not isolated. A synthesis of a stable silanone was reported in 2014. Silanones are of some interest to academic research.
Silanones are unstable and favor oligomerisation to a siloxane. The reason for this instability is the weak pi bond with a small HOMO–LUMO energy gap caused by an unfavorable overlap between the p-orbitals of silicon and oxygen. A second reason for the observed instability is the strongly polarized Sið+ - Oð− bond.[1]
A stable silanone was reported in 2014.[5] In this compound silicon is bonded to a SIDipp group (1,3-bis(2,6-iPr2-C6H3)imidazolidin-2-ylidene) and a (Cp*)Cr(CO)3 group. Its stability is owed to the direct coordination of silicon to chromium and to steric shielding. The reported Si=O bond length is 1.526 Angstrom and in line with expectation. It has been described as a cationic metallosilanone.[1]
History
The first to postulate a silanone were Kipping & Lloyd in 1901,[6] but their products were in fact siloxanes. Silanones are of some relevance to the double bond rule.
References
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- ^ Filippou, A. C., Baars, B., Chernov, O., Lebedev, Y. N. and Schnakenburg, G. (2014), Silicon–Oxygen Double Bonds: A Stable Silanone with a Trigonal-Planar Coordinated Silicon Center. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 53: 565–570. doi:10.1002/anie.201308433
- ^ XLVII.—Organic derivatives of silicon. Triphenylsilicol and alkyloxysilicon chlorides F. Stanley Kipping, Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.S. and Lorenzo L. Lloyd J. Chem. Soc., Trans., 1901,79, 449-459 doi:10.1039/CT9017900449