Syntheses and solid-state structures of some dialkyltin derivatives of α-methoxy- and α-acetoxy-phenylacetic acids

Several di-n-butyltin and diethyltin biscarboxylates and distannoxanes of α-methoxy- and α-acetoxy-phenylacetic acids were synthesized and (two of) their structures were studied by means of X-ray diffraction analysis as well as by means of IR and Mossbauer spectroscopies. It was shown for {[(n-Bu) 2 - SnOC(O)CH(OMe)Ph] 2 O} 2 that there is an interaction between the OMe group and one of the endocyclic tin atoms, resulting in a distorted pentagonal-bipyramidal geometry with the pentagonal plane defined by five O atoms and an uncommon seven coordination number for this tin atom. Spectral data indicate that biscarboxylates have trans-octahedral structures.