Unprecedented participation of a four-coordinate hydrogen atom in the cubane core of lithium and sodium phenolates

David M Cousins; Matthew G Davidson; Daniel García-Vivó

doi:10.1039/c3cc47393g

Unprecedented participation of a four-coordinate hydrogen atom in the cubane core of lithium and sodium phenolates

Chem Commun (Camb). 2013 Dec 28;49(100):11809-11. doi: 10.1039/c3cc47393g.

Authors

David M Cousins¹, Matthew G Davidson, Daniel García-Vivó

Affiliation

¹ Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies, Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK. m.g.davidson@bath.ac.uk garciavdaniel@uniovi.es.

PMID: 24217230
DOI: 10.1039/c3cc47393g

Abstract

Metalation of an ammonium tris(phenol) ligand affords new lithium/sodium derivatives having central pseudocubane motifs in which one of the metallic positions is replaced by a four-coordinate hydrogen atom.