J. Bellama, R. Gsell
Apr 1, 1971
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Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry Letters
Abstract
Although tin tetrahydride, or stannane, is reasonably stable at room temperature in the absence of elemental tin, the introduction of an electronegative substituent markedly decreases the stability of the tin-hydrogen bond (i). Thus, the only monofunctional derivative of stannane thus far reported (2) is SnH3CI, and its reported decomposition temperature of -70 ° has until now effectively precluded any characterization beyond an estimate of vapor pressure. In this study the monohalogeno derivatives of stannane, SnH3X (X = CI, Br, I), were prepared by the reaction of a i:I molar mixture of SnH 4 and HX at -78 ° according to the equation: