Synthesis and structure of tris(4-N,N-dimethylaminophenyl)antimony(V) difluoride, dichloride, and dibenzoate

Abstract

tris(4-N,N-Dimethylaminophenyl)antimony dichloride (I) was prepared by the reaction of tris(4-N,N-dimethylaminophenyl)antimony with copper dichloride. tris(4-N,N-Dimethylaminophenyl)antimony difluoride benzene disolvate II was synthesized from dichloride I and sodium fluoride in aqueous acetone with the subsequent crystallization from benzene. tris(4-N,N-Dimethylaminophenyl)antimony dibenzoate III was obtained from tris(4-N,N-dimethylaminophenyl)antimony and benzoic acid in the presence of hydrogen peroxide in ether or from silver benzoate and the corresponding dichloride in acetone. According to X-ray studies Sb atoms in two crystallographically independent molecules of dichloride, difluoride benzene solvate, and dibenzoate have the distorted trigonal bipyramide coordination [ClSbCl, FSbF, and OSbO trans angles are 178.12(2)°, 178.57(3)°, 177.30°, and 176.49° respectively). Sb-Cl, Sb-F, and Sb-O interatomic distances are 2.4719(7)-2.505(7); 2.106(4); 2.438(2); 2.1212(13) Å respectively. The oxygen atoms of carbonyl groups of the molecule III (C _2v molecular symmetry) are coordinated to the central atom [Sb-O distance 2.987(1) Å].