What is Lithium bis(trimethylsilyl)amide?

Identification

Product Name:  Lithium bis(trimethylsilyl)amide    

Synonyms:  1,1,1,3,3,3-HEXAMETHYLDISILAZAN LITHIUMSALZ;1,1,1,3,3,3-HEXAMETHYLDISILAZANE LITHIUM SALT;HEXAMETHYLDISILAZANE LITHIUM SALT;LHMDS;LIHMDS;LITHIUM HEXAMETHYLDISILAZANE;LITHIUM HEXAMETHYLDISILAZIDE;LITHIUM-BIS-(TRIMETHYLSILYL)-AMID    

CAS:    4039-32-1    

MF:    C6H18LiNSi2    

MW:    167.33    

EINECS:    223-725-6 

Properties

Melting point     −55 °C(lit.)   

Boiling point     120-122 °C(lit.)   

Density     0.775 g/mL at 20 °C(lit.)   

Vapor density     4 (vs air)   

Vapor pressure     21 hPa (20 °C)    

Refractive index     n20/D 1.4179(lit.)   

Fp   50 °F   

Storage temp.     Store at RT.    

Solubility     H2O: 10 mg/mL at 20 °C, clear, colorless   

Form     Liquid    

Pka    10.40, 8.26(at 25℃)    

Color     Clear colorless to slightly yellow    

General Description

Lithium bistrimethylsilylamide is also called lithium hexamethylsilylamide (LiHMDS). Lithium bistrimethylsilylamide can be used to prepare low-coordination metal complexes because the ligand (TMS) 2N- has a large steric hindrance. Such examples are M[N(TMS)2]3 (M=Sc,Ti,V,Fe; TMS=(CH3)3SChemicalbooki)). It reacts with trimethylchlorosilane to produce tris(trimethylsilyl)amine, in which the coordination number of nitrogen is 3, and the spatial configuration is a plane regular triangle. In organic synthesis or pharmaceutical synthesis, lithium bistrimethylsilylamide is usually used as a strong base to form various lithium salts through exchange reactions, such as lithium acetylene, or lithium enol salts, etc. to further complete the conversion of functional groups.

Application

Lithium bistrimethylsilylamide (LiHMDS) can be used as a strong non-nucleophilic base and can be used in the reaction to form enols. The stereospecific Claisen rearrangement reaction of enol esters converts aldehydes into silimides. The reaction, the reaction of glycidyl ester, the reaction of β-lactam, the selective cleavage reaction of aryl alkyl ether, are mainly used in laboratory research and development process and organic synthesis process.

Lithium bis(trimethylsilyl)amide is a non-nucleophilic strong Brønsted base, which is generally soluble in most of the nonpolar organic solvents. It is most commonly employed in organic reactions. It is used as the base employed in generating enolates for the preparation of lactone precursors, pyranones, and cyclohexanes. Used to catalyze the addition of phosphine P-H bonds to carbodiimides leading to phosphaguanidines. Also used in a novel three-step synthesis of disubstituted 1,2,5-thiadiazoles.

Preparation

Take a clean and dry 500L reactor , the pressure gauge and thermometer are within the validity period, the bottom valve has been closed, and the reactor is replaced with argon three times; 180kg of tetrahydrofuran and 100kg of hexamethyldisilazane are added to the reactor through the upper tank, Cool down to -15℃±5℃, keep this temperature, open the balance pipe valve on Chemicalbook, and add 171kg of n-butyllithium solution (2.5M n-hexane solution) with a mass of 171kg and a molar concentration of 1.6M-2.5M through the upper tank. After dripping in about 6h, the temperature was raised to 10℃ and kept for 1h to obtain the lithium hexamethyldisilazide solution. The concentration was checked by sampling, and the yield was 98%.

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