Samarium(II) Iodide

Herausgegeben:Surhone, Lambert M.; Timpledon, Miriam T.; Marseken, Susan F.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Samarium(II) iodide (SmI2) is a green solid composed of samarium and iodine, with a melting point of 520 °C where the samarium atom has a coordination number of seven in a capped octahedral configuration. It can be formed by high temperature decomposition of SmI3 (the more stable iodide), but a convenient lab preparation is to react Sm powder with 1,2-diiodoethane in anhydrous THF, or CH2I2 may also be used. Samarium(II) iodide is a powerful reducing agent for example it rapidly reduces water to hydrogen. It is available commercially as a dark blue 0.1 M solution in THF. Esters react similarly (adding two R groups), but aldehydes give by-products. The reaction is convenient in that it is often very rapid (5 minutes or less in the cold). Although samarium(II) iodide is considered a powerful single-electron reducing agent, it does display remarkable chemoselectivity among functional groups. For example, sulfones and sulfoxides can be reduced to the corresponding sulfide in the presence of a variety of carbonyl-containing functionalities (such as esters, ketones, amides, aldehydes, etc).

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• Verlag: Betascript Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 108
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9786131012488
• ISBN-10: 6131012482
• Artikelnr.: 29847610