Mössbauer spectroscopy of mono-organotin(IV) derivatives

Abstract The Mossbauer parameters isomer shift, δ, and quadrupole splitting, ΔE, of mono-organotin compounds insofar investigated have been collected and tabulated. It is demonstrated that isomer shifts consistently depend on ligand electronegativities and coordination numbers, from which it is deduced that RSn IV behave much more as Sn IV rather than R 2 Sn IV and R 3 Sn IV derivatives. The changes of δ for RSn IV are then interpreted by hypotheses analogous to those advanced for Sn IV and its adducts and complexes. It is also inferred that in RSn IV compounds there is a consistent s-character in all tin-ligand atom bonds.