Copper(I) tert-butoxide explained

Copper(I) tert-butoxide is an alkoxide of copper(I). It is a white sublimable solid. It is a reagent in the synthesis of other copper compounds.[1]

The compound was originally obtained by salt metathesis from lithium tert-butoxide and copper(I) chloride.[2] An octameric form was obtained by alcoholysis of mesitylcopper:[3]

8 CuC6H2Me3 + 8 HOBu-t → 8 HC6H2Me3 + [CuOBu-t]8

References

  1. Encyclopedia: Copper(I) t-Butoxide . Tetsuo Tsuda . Takeshi Takeda . Akira Tsubouchi. Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis. 2008. 10.1002/047084289X.rc212.pub2. 978-0-471-93623-7 .
  2. Tsuda, T. . Hashimoto, T. . Saegusa, T. . Cuprous tert-butoxide. New and useful metalation reagent. Journal of the American Chemical Society . 1972. 94. 2 . 658–659. 10.1021/ja00757a069.
  3. Copper(I) alkoxides: preparation and structural characterisation of triphenylmethoxocopper(I) and of an octanuclear form of t-butoxocopper(I) . Håkansson, M. . Lopes, C. . Jagner, S. . Inorganica Chimica Acta. 2000. 304. 2 . 178–183. 10.1016/S0020-1693(00)00081-5.

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