Organotin chemistry

Organotin compounds or stannanes are chemical compounds based on tin with hydrocarbon substituents. Organotin chemistry is part of the wider field of organometallic chemistry.[1] The first organotin compound was diethyltin diiodide, discovered by Edward Frankland in 1849. An organotin compound is commercially applied as a hydrochloric acid scavenger (or heat stabilizer) in polyvinyl chloride and as a biocide. Tributyltin oxide has been extensively used as a wood preservative. Tributyltin compounds are used as marine anti-biofouling agents. Concerns over toxicity[2] of these compounds (some reports describe biological effects to marine life at a concentration of 1 nanogram per liter) have led to a worldwide ban by the International Maritime Organization. n-Butyltin trichloride is used in the production of tin dioxide layers on glass bottles by chemical vapor deposition.

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Structure of organotin compounds

Organotin compounds are generally classified according to their oxidation states. Tin(IV) compounds are much more common and more useful.

Organic derivatives of tin(IV)

The entire series R4−nSnCln are known for many R groups and values of n up to 4. Analogous derivatives are known for other halides. Alkoxide and carboxylate derivatives however tend to associate and often poorly characterized. The oxides are also complicated. Many diorganotin oxides, (R2SnO)n are oligomeric:

With bulky R groups, diorganotin oxides adopt cyclic trimeric or dimeric structures consisting of Sn3O3 and Sn2O2 rings, respectively.

Idealized structure of dimeric diorganotin oxide.
Idealized structure of trimeric diorganotin oxide.
Ball-and-stick model for (t-Bu2SnO)3.
Structure of diorganotin oxide, highlighting the extensive intermolecular bonding.

Hypercoordinated stannanes

Unlike their carbon(IV) analogues but like silicon compounds, tin(IV) can also be coordinated to five and even six atoms instead of the regular four. These hypercoordinated compounds usually have electronegative substituents. Lithium pentaorganostannates were first detected and characterized in solution in 1986,[3] while in the subsequent year a six-coordinated tetraorganotin compound was reported.[4] In 2007 a crystal structure of room-temperature stable (in argon) all-carbon pentaorganostannane was reported as the lithium salt with this structure:[5]

In this distorted trigonal bipyramidal structure the carbon to tin bond lengths (2.26 Å apical, 2.17 Å equatorial) are larger than regular C-Sn bonds (2.14 Å) reflecting its hypervalent nature.

Tin radicals (organic derivatives of tin(III))

Tin radicals, with the formula R3Sn, are called stannyl radicals.[6] They are invoked as intermediates in certain atom-transfer reactions. For example, tributyltin hydride (tri-n-butylstannane) serves as a good source of "hydrogen atoms" because of the stability of the tributytin radical.[7]

Organic derivatives of tin(II)

Organotin(II) compounds are somewhat rare. Compounds with the empirical formula SnR2 are somewhat fragile and exist as rings or polymers when R is not bulky. The polymers are called polystannanes and have the formula (SnR2)n.

In principle divalent tin compounds might be expected to form analogues of alkenes with a formal double bond. Indeed compounds with the formula Sn2R4, called distannenes, are known for certain organic substituents. The Sn centres tend to be highly pyramidal. Monomeric compounds with the formula SnR2, analogues of carbenes are also known in a few cases. One example is [Sn(SiR3]2 where R = CH(SiMe3)2 (Me = methyl). Such species reversibly dimerize to the distannylene upon crystallization:[8]

2 R2Sn \overrightarrow{\leftarrow} (R2Sn)2

Stannenes, compounds with tin-carbon double bonds, are exemplified by derivatives of stannabenzene. Stannoles, structural analogs of cyclopentadiene, exhibit little C-Sn double bond character.

Organic derivatives of tin(I)

Compounds of Sn(I) are rare and only observed with very bulky ligands. One prominent family of cages is accessed by pyrolysis of the 2,6-diethylphenyl-substituted tristannylene [Sn(C6H3-2,6-Et2)2]3, which affords the cubane and a prismane. These cages contain Sn(I) and have the formula [Sn(C6H3-2,6-Et2)]n where n = 8, 10.[9] A stannyne contains a carbon to tin triple bond and a distannyne a triple bond between two tin atoms (RSnSnR). Distannynes only exist for extremely bulky substituents. Unlike alkynes, the C-Sn-Sn-C core of these distannynes are nonlinear, although they are planar. The Sn-Sn distance is 3.066(1) Å, and the Sn-Sn-C angles are 99.25(14)°. Such compounds are prepared by reduction of bulky aryltin(II) halides.[10]

Preparation of organotin compounds

Organotin compounds can be synthesised by reaction of a Grignard reagent with tin halides for example tin tetrachloride. An example is the organic synthesis of tributyl-[(Z)-5-phenyl-2-penten-2-yl]stannane:[11][12]

The Wurtz-like coupling of alkyl sodium compounds with tin halides yield tetraorganotin compounds. Another method is an redistribution reaction of tin halides with organoaluminium compounds (AlR3). Triorganotin halides can be prepared in the Kocheshkov redistribution reaction.

Reactions of organotin compounds

Important reactions involving organotin compounds are the Stille reaction (coupling reaction with sp2-hybridized organic halides catalyzed by palladium):

and organostannane additions (nucleophilic addition of an allyl-, allenyl-, or propargylstannanes to an aldehydes and imines). Organotin compounds are also used extensively in radical chemistry (eg. radical cyclizations, Barton–McCombie deoxygenation, Barton decarboxylation, etc.).

Use and toxicity

Compounds

Organotin compounds are used commercially in a wide range of applications such as biocides, insecticides, chemical intermediates and as catalysts.

See also

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CNa CMg CAl CSi CP CS CCl CAr
CK CCa CSc CTi CV CCr CMn CFe CCo CNi CCu CZn CGa CGe CAs CSe CBr CKr
CRb CSr CY CZr CNb CMo CTc CRu CRh CPd CAg CCd CIn CSn CSb CTe CI CXe
CCs CBa CHf CTa CW CRe COs CIr CPt CAu CHg CTl CPb CBi CPo CAt Rn
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CLa CCe CPr CNd CPm CSm CEu CGd CTb CDy CHo CEr CTm CYb CLu
Ac Th Pa CU Np Pu Am Cm Bk Cf Es Fm Md No Lr
Chemical bonds to carbon
Core organic chemistry Many uses in chemistry
Academic research, but no widespread use Bond unknown / not assessed

References

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