[1.1]Ferrocenophanyllithium (
1) is shown bydynamic NMR (DNMR) and isotopic perturbation to undergoa rapid intramolecular 1,12-proton transfer coupled with 1,12-lithiumion transfer. The first [C-H-C]
-hydrogenbond previously reported to be present in
1 is shown byX-ray crystallography to be absent in the solid state.The
13C NMR spectrum of the bridge-labeled compound[1,12-
13C
2][1.1]ferrocenophanyl[1-
6Li]lithium(
6) in 2,5-dimethyltetrahydrofuran (DMTHF) displays a 1:1:1 triplet(
1J(
13C,
6Li) =4.0 Hz) showing that
6Li is bonded to C-1and that
1 is monomeric. Transient nuclear Overhausereffects (tNOE's) measured in DEE-
d10 inbridgedmonodeuterated
1 show that the bridges in
1 are
syn and not
anti to each other and that lithiumis
exo-coordinatedto the anionic bridge carbon. The
1J(
13C,
1H) couplingconstants show that the hybridization of the carbanioniccarbon is intermediate between sp
2 and sp
3.Thus the solution and solid state structures of
1 aresimilar. UV-visspectroscopy shows that
1 exists mainly as contact ion pairs(CIPs) in the temperature range -100 to +25
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C inTHF, DMTHF, and diethyl ether (DEE). In dimethoxyethane (DME),
1 is mainly CIPs above +25
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C but is mainlyseparated ion pairs (SIPs) below -30
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C.