Nonconventional behavior of NCN-chelated organoantimony(III) sulfide and isolation of cyclic organoantimony(III) bis(pentasulfide)

Libor Dostál; Roman Jambor; Ales Růzicka; Robert Jirásko; Václav Lochar; Ludvík Benes; Frank de Proft

doi:10.1021/ic901873k

Nonconventional behavior of NCN-chelated organoantimony(III) sulfide and isolation of cyclic organoantimony(III) bis(pentasulfide)

Inorg Chem. 2009 Nov 16;48(22):10495-7. doi: 10.1021/ic901873k.

Authors

Libor Dostál¹, Roman Jambor, Ales Růzicka, Robert Jirásko, Václav Lochar, Ludvík Benes, Frank de Proft

Affiliation

¹ Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic. [email protected]

PMID: 19842667
DOI: 10.1021/ic901873k

Abstract

Organoantimony(III) sulfide (1) containing the NCN chelating ligand L [L = 2,6-(CH(2)NMe(2))(2)C(6)H(3)] displays unusual dual behavior, being dimeric (LSbS)(2), with the central Sb(2)S(2) core, in the solid state but monomeric in solution. Sulfide 1 reacts with elemental S to give the unprecedented cyclic bis(pentasulfide) LSb(mu-S(5))(2)SbL (2) with the central 12-membered ring Sb(2)S(10).