Terminal beryllium–hydrogen bonding. X-Ray crystal structure of the (2-dimethylamino-N-methylethylamido)hydridoberyllium dimer
Abstract
An X-ray crystal structure determination shows that in [HBeN(Me)C2H4NMe2]2 the hydrogen atom bound to beryllium occupies a terminal position with amido nitrogen atoms as the bridging atoms in a four-membered Be2N2ring; the metal and nitrogen atoms achieve four-co-ordination via formation of four- and five-membered rings with the diamine.