The arched four-rung ladder structure of the unsolvated dilithium salt of N,N′-bis(trimethylsilyl)-2-aminobenzylamine, and its structural deformation on THF complexation
Abstract
The X-ray crystal structures of 2-Li(SiMe3)NC6H4CH2N(SiMe 3)Li 1 and 2-Li(SiMe3)NC6H4CH2N(SiMe 3)Li·THF 2 show that both compounds exist in the solid state as discrete dimers that display an analogous four-rung ladder core, allowing us to analyse the effect of THF coordination.