Affiliations: Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University,
Burnaby, BC, Canada | Department of Chemistry, Saint Mary's University,
Halifax, NS, Canada | Saskatchewan Structural Sciences Centre, University of
Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada | Department of Chemistry, University of Western
Ontario, London, ON, Canada
Note: [] Corresponding author: Jason A.C. Clyburne, Department of
Chemistry, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, NS, Canada. E-mail:
jason.clyburne@smu.ca
Abstract: The bulky m-terphenyl benzyl alcohols ArCH_{2}OH
(Ar=2,4,6-triphenylphenyl) 1 and Ar*CH_{2}OH (Ar*=
C_{6}H_{3}-2,6-Mes_{2},
Mes=2,4,6-trimethylphenyl) 2 were synthesized via treatment of the
corresponding aryllithium salt with DMF followed by NaBH_{4}
reduction. A zinc complex of 1 was prepared and contains a rather uncommon
trigonal planar geometry for a zinc organometallic compound. All compounds were
characterized spectroscopically and were studied by single crystal X-ray
diffraction techniques.
Keywords: M-terphenyl, main group compounds, X-ray crystallography, benzyl alcohol, zinc
