A nonalternant organyl ligand derived from azulene, a 1,3-dichloro-2-azulenyl group, isintroduced for the first time into the bismuth and antimony center. Conversion of theazulenylbismuthanes into the pentacoordinated difluorides by xenon difluoride promotesthe
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-polarization of the azulene nucleus, which is detected as a color change in solution aswell as changes in the chemical shifts of the
13C NMR spectra. A similar tendency is observedin the antimony congeners. The X-ray crystallographic study of (1,3-dichloro-2-azulenyl)diphenylbismuth difluoride (
20b) reveals that intermolecular
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stacking takes placebetween the azulenyl groups through the interaction of the five-membered ring with theseven-membered ring. This may reflect the more polarized azulenyl group of the difluorides,which strengthens the stacking interaction.