The Crystal and Molecular Structure of Trimethyltin Chloride at 135K. A Highly Volatile Organotin Polymer.
Abstract
Trimethyltin chloride is the key starting material in the laboratory synthesis of the trimethyltin derivatives most subjected to study. It is an article of commerce, and has itself been extensively studied by a great variety of spectroscopic and physical methods. There is in the literature starting in 1970 a trial of oft referenced private communications (see our ref. 17) which describe a yet unpublished X-ray structure which is incorrect. In addition, the structure of the analogous triphenyltin chloride, which is monomeric at ambient temperature, is said to undergo a change on cooling to a chlorine-bridged polymer, but this suggestion is based upon NQR data at 77K which cannot be reproduced (see our ref. 5). The structure of the homologous trimethyltin fluoride cannot be solved because of disorder, and thus the widely-quoted bridging halide structures for R3SnX compounds are being confirmed here in the case of the title compound for the first time. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 27, 1979
- Accession Number
- ADA073641
Entities
People
- D. Van Der Helm
- J. L. Lefferts
- Jerold J. Zuckerman
- K. C. Molloy
- M. Bilayet Hossain
Organizations
- University of Oklahoma