Hydridoorganostannylene Coordination: Group 4 Metallocene Dichloride Reduction in Reaction with Organodihydridostannate Anions

Organodihydridoelement anions of germanium and tin were reacted with metallocene dichlorides of Group 4 metals Ti, Zr and Hf. The germate anion [Ar*GeH(2)](−) reacts with hafnocene dichloride under formation of the substitution product [Cp(2)Hf(GeH(2)Ar*)(2)]. Reaction of the organodihydridostannate with metallocene dichlorides affords the reduction products [Cp(2)M(SnHAr*)(2)] (M=Ti, Zr, Hf). Abstraction of a hydride substituent from the titanium bis(hydridoorganostannylene) complex results in formation of cation [Cp(2)M(SnAr*)(SnHAr*)](+) exhibiting a short Ti–Sn interaction. (Ar*=2,6‐Trip(2)C(6)H(3), Trip=2,4,6‐triisopropylphenyl).