Synthesis and Reactivity of Some N,N-Bis(3-nitrobenzylidene)ethylenediamine Diphenyltin Salts

Abstract

A series of seven new complexes of organotin(IV) of the general formula [Ph₂SnL]X₂ where L = N,N-bis(3-nitrobenzylidene) ethylenediamine and X = Cl⁻, ClO₄ ⁻, NO₃ ⁻, BF₄ ⁻ have been prepared and their reactivity, using a variety of reagents and resulting in ten new derivatives, has been studied. The Sn-C bond remains stable and intact in many interesting interconversions of these derivatives and the functional groups on the 3-position of benzene ring were found to be intramolecularly coordinated to the tin atom giving octahedral geometry to the new complexes.