Institution: | a Department of Chemistry, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk 361-763, Republic of Korea b Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea |
Abstract: | Three monomeric germatranes, 1-isopropoxy-3,3,7,7,10,10-hexamethyl-2,8,9-trioxa-5-aza-1-germatricyclo3.3.3.01,5]undecane (1), 1-isopropoxy-3,3,7,7-tetramethyl-2,8,9-trioxa-5-aza-1-germatricyclo3.3.3.01,5]undecane (2), and 1-isopropoxy-3,3-dimethyl-2,8,9-trioxa-5-aza-1-germatricyclo3.3.3.01,5]undecane (3) have been synthesized by the reaction of Ge(O-i-Pr)4 in refluxing toluene with corresponding triethanolamines, (HOCH2CH2)nN(CH2CMe2OH)3−n (n = 0, L1H3; n = 1, L2H3; n = 2, L3H3), where the number of CMe2 groups adjacent to a OH functionality varied from 3 (L1H3) to 2 (L2H3), and to 1 (L3H3). These germatranes 1-3 have been characterized by solution 1H and 13C{1H} NMR and the solid state structure of 2 has been determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction. |