화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.142, No.15, 6852-6855, 2020
Sodium Hexamethyldisilazide: Using N-15-Si-29 Scalar Coupling to Determine Aggregation and Solvation States
Si-29 NMR spectroscopy, the method of continuous variations, and density functional theory computations show that sodium hexamethyldisilazide (NaHMDS) is a disolvated dimer in toluene, a mixture of disolvated dimer and tetrasolvated monomer in THF/toluene, and exclusively monomer in neat THF. The dioxane-solvated NaHMDS only partially deaggregates to monomer even in neat dioxane. N-15-Si-29 coupling constants and Si-29 chemical shifts show a high and dependable correlation with the aggregation state. Monitoring either chemical shift or coupling constant versus THF concentration even in the high-temperature, rapid-exchange limit affords the solvation numbers consistent with DFT computations. The preparation of N-15-labeled NaHMDS has been improved.