Department of Chemistry, The University of the District of Columbia, Mount Vernon Square Campus, Washington, D.C., 20008 U.S.A.
Department of Chemistry, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., 20064 U.S.A.
Abstract:
To obtain more structural information on complexes formed between alkyltin halides and bidentate ligands, the solid-state IR and Mössbauer spectra of the 1,2-ethanediamine and 1,4-butanediamine complexes of trimethyltin halides and dimethyltin dihalides were examined. The structures of the trimethyltin halide complexes were found to be trigonal bipyramidal with coplnar methyl groups. The dimethyltin dihalide complexes were octahedral with the methyl groups in the cis-positions and the halides trans to each other. However, there were no differences in the structures of the chloro and bromo complexes of either type.