THE PREPARATION, CHARACTERIZATION AND LOW-TEMPERATURE X-RAY STRUCTUREOF RU-6(ETA(2)-MU(4)-CO)(2)(CO)(13)(ETA(6)-C(6)ME(6))

Authors
BLAKE AJ DYSON PJ INGHAM SL JOHNSON BFG MARTIN CM
Citation
Aj. Blake et al., THE PREPARATION, CHARACTERIZATION AND LOW-TEMPERATURE X-RAY STRUCTUREOF RU-6(ETA(2)-MU(4)-CO)(2)(CO)(13)(ETA(6)-C(6)ME(6)), Inorganica Chimica Acta, 240(1-2), 1995, pp. 29-32
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Chemistry Inorganic & Nuclear
Journal title
Inorganica Chimica Acta → ACNP
ISSN journal
00201693
Volume
240
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
29 - 32
Database
ISI
SICI code
0020-1693(1995)240:1-2<29:TPCALX>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
The new organometallic cluster Ru-6(eta(2)-mu(4)-CO)(2)(CO)(13)(eta(6) -C(6)Me(6)) has been prepared by the thermolysis of Ru-3(CO)(12) with hexamethylbenzene in octane and characterised by a single crystal X-ra y diffraction study. If is isostructural with the known cluster (eta(2 )-mu(4)-CO)(2)(CO)(13)(eta(6)-C(6)H(3)Me(3)) and the metal core consti tutes the same tetrahedral Ru-4 unit with two edge-bridging Ru atoms. The mesitylene derivative has been shown to undergo rearrangement to a fford the octahedral carbido cluster Ru6C(CO)(14)(eta(6)-C(6)H(3)Me(3) ), but this conversion is not observed for the new hexamethylbenzene d erivative.