The reaction of butyltin hydroxide oxide, BuSnO(OH), with
p-toluenesulfonic acid,4-CH
3C
6H
4SO
3H, yields the butyltin oxo cluster {(BuSn)
12(
3-O)
14(
2-OH)
6}
2+ mixed with asoluble ill-defined butyltin oxo polymer, the presence of which was established by solid-state and quantitative solution
119Sn NMR. The reaction conditions were varied in order tooptimize the yield of oxo cluster, which can be quantitatively isolated by crystallization as{(BuSn)
12O
14(OH)
6}(4-CH
3C
6H
4SO
3)
2·C
4H
8O
2 (
1·diox). The structure of the latter compoundwas determined by X-ray diffraction.
1·diox and {(BuSn)
12O
14(OH)
6}(4-CH
3C
6H
4SO
3)
2 (
1) werealso characterized by solid-state
119Sn MAS NMR and solution
119Sn,
1H, and
13C NMR. In
1·diox, the existence of weak Lewis interactions, taking place in the crystal between five-coordinate tin atoms and dioxane molecules, was evidenced by solid-state
119Sn NMR.2D
1H-
1H NOESY and ROESY experiments, along with ionic conductivity measurements,have proved that the ionic dissociation between {(BuSn)
12O
14(OH)
6}
2+ and 4-CH
3C
6H
4SO
3-(PTS
-)
does not take place in dichloromethane, while it
does in the more polar anddissociating dimethyl sulfoxide. Using the
1H-
119Sn
J-HMQC NMR technique, the weak
2J(
1H-O-
119Sn) coupling constant between the
2-OH and the six-coordinate tin nuclei wasdetermined and shown to depend on the solvent.