Trimeric dibenzylamidolithium and its dimeric diethyl ether and hexamethylphosphoramide complexes: structural and theoretical studies of reactive organonitrogen–lithium oligomers

Abstract

The coloured, Crystalline title compounds have properties likely to make them synthetically useful reagents while their isolation and structural characterisation, with the aid of X-ray crystallagraphy and MO calculations, allows predictive rules to be forward for the probable structures and reactivities of other organonitrogen-lithium species.