Mono- and bis(hydroxylamino)silanes – synthesis, isomerisation and quantum chemical calculations

Abstract

Silylhydroxylamines can undergo anionic, neutral and thermal rearrangements. Lithium derivatives of silylhydroxylamines have been used for more than 30 years in such synthesis. They are formed by the reaction of N,O-bis(silyl)hydroxylamines with n-butyl-lithium and crystallize as O-lithium-N,N-bis(silyl)hydroxylamides under silyl group migration from the oxygen to the nitrogen atom. Depending on the reaction conditions and the bulkiness of the substituents, dimeric, trimeric and tetrameric oligomers are isolated. Lithium is bonded end on to the oxygen atom in the dimeric and trimeric silylhydroxylamides and side on to the N-O bond in the tetrameric oligomer.Fluorofunctional bis(silyl)hydroxylamines are excellent precursors for ring systems. In the reactions of dihalosilanes and hydroxylamine the first bis(hydroxylamino)silanes, R2Si(O-NH2)2, areobtained.O-Fluorosilyl- and O-stannyl-N,N-bis(trialkylsilyl)hydroxylamines undergo irreversible dyotropic rearrangements to N-fluorosilyl-N,O-bis(trialkylsilyl)hydroxylamines and N-stannyl-N,O-bis(trialkylsilyl)hydroxylamines, respectively. Thermal rearrangement of tris(silyl)hydroxylamines leads to the formation of silylaminodisiloxanes.Quantum chemical calculations for model compounds demonstrate the course of the dyotropic and thermal rearrangements. The results of these calculations allow the prediction of the resulting isomeric silylaminodisiloxane.