Metallole

Metalloles are inorganic derivatives of cyclopentadiene in which the carbon atom at position 5, the saturated carbon, is replaced by an inorganic atom. In contrast to its parent compound, the numbering of the metallole starts at the heteroatom. Some of these compounds are described as organometallic compounds, but in the list below quite a number of metalloids are present too.[1] Many metalloles are fluorescent and are used in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and other applications. Metalloles, which can also be viewed as structural analogs of pyrrole, include:

Calculated geometry and inversion barrier energy E for some C4H4MH metalloles[2]
Name M d(M-C), Å d(M-H), Å α(C-M-C), ° E, kJ/mol
Pyrrole N 1.37 1.01 110 0
Phosphole P 1.81 1.425 90.5 67
Arsole As 1.94 1.53 86 125
Stibole Sb 2.14 1.725 80.5 160
Bismole Bi 2.24 1.82 78 220

References

  1. ^ Tracy, Henry J.; Mullin, Jerome L.; Klooster, Wim T.; Martin, James A.; Haug, Judith; Wallace, Scott; Rudloe, Isaac; Watts, Kimberly (2005). " Enhanced Photoluminescence from Group 14 Metalloles in Aggregated and Solid Solutions". Inorganic Chemistry 44 (6): 2003. doi:10.1021/ic049034o. PMID 15762727. 
  2. ^ Pelzer, Silke; Wichmann, Karin; Wesendrup, Ralf; Schwerdtfeger, Peter (2002). "Trends in Inversion Barriers IV. The Group 15 Analogous of Pyrrole". The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 106: 6387. doi:10.1021/jp0203494.