Crystal Structure of N,N,N′,N′-Tetrakis-(trimethylsilyl)ethane-1,2-diamine

Abstract

The title compound, [{(Me₃Si)₂NCH₂}₂], has been structurally characterized by a single-crystal X-ray structure determination at 130 K, being refined by full-matrix least-squares to a residual of 0.057 for 1244 'observed' reflections. Crystals are monoclinic, C2/c, a 21.00(2), b 9.089(8), c 11.744(9) Ǻ, β 92.31(7)°, Z 4. Molecules lie on inversion centres, but with some disorder of the methylene groups. Si -N are 1.73₅ Ǻ, and N-CH₂ 1.53(1) for the major fragment (70%). The nitrogen in the major fragment is approximately trigonal planar; Si -N- Si 124.6(3)°, Si -N-C 117.5(4), 115.5(4)°.