119Sn Chemical Shifts in five- and six-coordinate organotin chelates

¹¹⁹Sn chemical shifts, δ(¹¹⁹Sn), relative to Me₄Sn in five- and six-coordinate organotin chelates were measured by means of FT NMR spectroscopy. ¹¹⁹Sn resonances were found to lie between ca. ?90 and ?330 ppm in the five-coordinate compounds and between ca. ?125 and ?515 ppm in the six-coordinate derivatives. thus δ(¹¹⁹Sn) moves upfield by 60–150 ppm with a change of the coordination number of tin from four to five and by 130–200 ppm from five to six. the δ(¹¹⁹Sn) values were shifted depending on the nature of chelating ligands and this shift was discussed in terms of the bonding between the ligand and tin. Replacement of methyl groups attached to tin by phenyl groups in five- and six-coordinate compounds induces upfield shifts in δ(¹¹⁹Sn) parallel to those found in four-coordinate organotin halides.