Abstract
Two novel lithium compounds containing either the phosphorus-chalcogenide anions [Ph 2 PS]− or [Cy 2 PS 2 ]− were isolated as decomposition products in the attempted formation of phospha(V)guanidinate anions. Lithium diphenylthiophosphinite was structurally characterized as the dimeric TMEDA adduct [Li(Ph 2 PS)(TMEDA)] 2 (1), in which a rare example of the κ 1 -S bonding mode was observed for the anion. The dicyclohexyldithiophosphinate anion was incorporated into an aggregated structure with molecular formula [Li 5 (Cy 2 PS 2 ) 4 (OH)] 2 (2). DFT calculations were performed on the isolated [R 2 PS]− and [R 2 PS 2 ]− anions (R = Ph, Cy), indicating delocalization of electron density into the P-S bonds for each model, in agreement with bond-lengths taken from crystallographic data.
Acknowledgments
The University of Sussex and the EPSRC are thanked for financial support.
Notes
aValues taken from compound 1
bvalues taken from Cp2Ti(Cy2PS)2, see Reference 9.
aValues taken from [Ph3Te][Ph2PS2], in which only weak secondary cation· anions interactions are present, see Reference 29
brange of values taken from compound 2.