1,3-Digermapropan und 1,3,5-Trigermacyclohexan / 1,3-Digermapropane and 1,3,5-Trigermacyclohexane
AbstractFrom the copper-catalyzed reaction of germanium powder with dichloromethane at 350 °C a mixture of alkylchlorogermanes is obtained, in which CH3GeCl3, CH2(GeCl3)2 (1) and (Cl2GeCH2)3 (2) are the major products. Treatment of 1 and 2 with LiAlH4 in di-n-butyl or diethylether, resp., affords the hydrides CH2(GeH3)2 (3) and cyclic (H2GeCH2)3 (4), the latter along with the heterocycle H2Ge(CH2GeH2)2 (5). Compounds 3-5 have been identified by analytical and spectroscopic data, and the crystal structure of 4 has been determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction. The compound crystallizes in the orthorhombic space group Pmn21, with two molecules in the unit cell (a = 8.663(1), b = 7.783(1), c = 6.124(1) Å). The molecules, which are in a chair conformation, have crystallographic mirror symmetry with bond angles slightly larger than tetrahedral and Ge-C distances of 1.944(6), 1.953(3) and 1.955(4) Å. The compounds show potential as substrates for plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition (PE-CVD) of amorphous germanium carbon alloys (a-Ge, C:H).