Spectroscopic studies of triphenyltin azide and of its adducts with O- and N-donor ligands; the crystal and molecular structures of triphenyltin azide and of azido(hexamethylphosphoramide)triphenyltin(IV)

Abstract

Complete far-IR and Raman data (<400 cm-1) are reported for triphenyltin azide (1) as well as for adducts Ph3SnN3·L (L = hexamethylphosphoramide (HMPA), triphenylphosphine oxide, pyridine-N-oxide, 4-picoline-N-oxide, or pyridine). The small changes in v(Sn-N3) noted on going from (1) to the adducts, as well as solid-state 119Sn nmr data, indicate that (1), like the adducts, has five-coordinate tin atoms. X-ray analysis shows that (1) crystallizes with two different chains of five-coordinate Ph3Sn units joined by 1,3-azide bridges. In one unit, the geometry around tin is similar to that found for the monomeric HMPA adduct (2), which has trans-axial HMPA and azide ligands. The other unit in (1) has nonplanar -SnC3- groups connected by less symmetric 1,3-azide bridges and thus resembles the structure of isoelectronic triphenyltin isocyanate.Key words: triphenyltin azide, O- and N-donor adducts, far-IR/Raman, crystal structures.