Issue 1, 1987

Notes. Oxidation and reduction of phosphorus–phosphorus and arsenic–arsenic double bonds. An electrochemical study of two diphosphenes and a diarsene

Abstract

The diphosphenes [(Me3Si)3C]2P2(1) and (2,4,6-But3C6H2)2P2(2) and the diarsene [(Me3Si)3C]2As2(3) undergo electrochemical reduction in tetrahydrofuran (thf) solution to the corresponding anion radicals [{(Me3Si)2C}2P2(4), [(2,4,6-But3C6H2)2P2(5), and [{(Me3Si)3C}2As2(6), respectively. Anion radicals (4) and (5) were sufficiently stable to permit the acquisition of e.s.r. data. The products of oxidation of (1), (2), and (3) were much more difficult to characterise. The oxidation of (1) in CH2Cl2, is irreversible at 25 °C; however, at –75 °C a one-electron oxidation occurs to the unstable cation radical [{(Me3Si)3C}2P2+. The oxidation of both (2) and (3) is irreversible even at –75 °C.

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J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 1987, 249-251

Notes. Oxidation and reduction of phosphorus–phosphorus and arsenic–arsenic double bonds. An electrochemical study of two diphosphenes and a diarsene

A. J. Bard, A. H. Cowley, J. E. Kilduff, J. K. Leland, N. C. Norman, M. Pakulski and G. A. Heath, J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 1987, 249 DOI: 10.1039/DT9870000249

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