Structural studies of organoboron compounds. XXIX. 6,6-Diethyl-2,2-diphenyl-1,3-dioxa-6-azonia-2-boratacyclooctane monohydrate
Details of the preparation and structure of the title compound are given. Crystals of 6,6-diethyl-2,2-diphenvl-1,3-dioxa-6-azonia-2-boratacyclooctane monohydrate are orthorhombic, a = 7.0322(2), b = 16.3505(7), c = 16.8164(4) Å, Z = 4, space group P212121. The structure was solved by direct methods and was refined by full-matrix least-squares procedures to R = 0.045 and Rw = 0.050 for 2013 reflections with I ≥ 3σ(I). The monocyclic eight-membered B, N-betaine is the first to be structurally characterized. The eight-membered chelate ring has a conformation intermediate between the S4 and boat-boat forms which is probably stabilized by transannular [Formula: see text] interactions. The average libration-corrected O—B and B—C bond lengths of 1.500 and 1.639 Å are, respectively, the shortest and longest yet observed for an O,O-chelate of diphenylboron.