The electrochemical synthesis and X-ray single crystal study of Re4O6(OiPr)10 – a new Rhenium(V, VI) cluster with an unprecedented arrangement of metal–metal bonds

Abstract

The anodic oxidation of rhenium metal in isopropanol at temperatures not exceeding 20 degreesC provides with good yields the crystalline Re4O6(O-i Pr)(10) (I) complex, the molecular structure of which is built up around a practically ideal (Re-Re 2.52-2.54 Angstrom) planar rhombus of metal atoms, being thus connected by five equivalent metal-metal bonds in a system with only six cluster electrons. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Keywords

rhenium alkoxide; electrochemical synthesis; X-ray structure; metal-metal bonds; cluster compounds

Published in

Inorganic Chemistry Communications
2001, Volume: 4, number: 5, pages: 227-229
Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV

SLU Authors

• Kessler, Vadim

  • Department of Molecular Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Inorganic Chemistry


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1387-7003(01)00154-X

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/50554