Formation of glow-discharge-polymerized organo-tin films with various ratios of carbon to tin and their X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy depth profiles

Abstract

The organo-tin compounds, Me2Sn(C5H4R-1)2 (R = Me (1), Pri (2), But (3), SiMe3 (4)) and Me2Sn(C5Me4R-1)2 (R = H (5), SiMe3 (6)), were prepared by the reaction of Me2SnCl2 with the lithium or sodium derivative of the corresponding cyclopentadiene. Compounds 1–6 have been characterized by multinuclear NMR spectroscopy (1H, 13C, 119Sn). In addition the molecular structures of 5 and 6 were determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction studies. The transmetalation reaction of 1–6 with ZrCl4 or [NbCl4(THF)2] gave the corresponding metallocene complexes in high yields.