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Halogenomercury Salts of Sterically Crowded Triazenides - Convenient Starting Materials for Redox-Transmetallation Reactions

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Diaryl-substituted triazenides Ar(Ar′)N3HgX [Ar/Ar′ = Dmp/Mph, X = Cl (2a), Br (3a), I (4a); Ar/Ar′ = Dmp/Tph, X = Cl (2b), I (4b) with Mph = 2-MesC6H4, Mes = 2,4,6-Me3C6H2, Tph = 2′,4′,6′-triisopropylbiphenyl-2-yl and Dmp = 2,6-Mes2C6H3] were synthesized by salt-metathesis reactions in ethyl ether from the readily available starting materials Ar(Ar′)N3Li and HgX2. These compounds may be used for redox-transmetallation reactions with rare-earth or alkaline earth metals. Thus, reaction of 4b or 2b with magnesium or ytterbium in tetrahydrofuran afforded the triazenides Dmp(Tph)N3MX(thf) (5b: M = Mg, X = I; 6b: M = Yb, X = Cl) in good yield. All new compounds were characterized by melting point, 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy and for selected species by IR spectroscopy or mass spectrometry. In addition, the solid-state structures of triazenides 2a, 2b, 3a, 4b, 5b and 6b were investigated by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.