NEW HOMOLEPTIC METAL-CARBONYL CATIONS - THE SYNTHESES, VIBRATIONAL AND C-13 MAS NMR-SPECTRA OF HEXACARBONYL-RUTHENIUM(II) AND HEXACARBONYL-OSMIUM(II) UNDECAFLUORODIANTIMONATE(V), [RU(CO)(6)][SB2F11](2) AND [OS(CO)(6)][SB2F11](2)
Cq. Wang et al., NEW HOMOLEPTIC METAL-CARBONYL CATIONS - THE SYNTHESES, VIBRATIONAL AND C-13 MAS NMR-SPECTRA OF HEXACARBONYL-RUTHENIUM(II) AND HEXACARBONYL-OSMIUM(II) UNDECAFLUORODIANTIMONATE(V), [RU(CO)(6)][SB2F11](2) AND [OS(CO)(6)][SB2F11](2), Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, (20), 1995, pp. 2071-2072
The new homoleptic carbonyl cations [Ru(CO)(6)](2+) and [Os(CO)(6)](2) are obtained as [Sb2F11](-) salts by the reductive carbonylation of
M(SO3F)(3) (M = Ru, Os), under very mild conditions (60-90 degrees C,
1 atm CO), in liquid SbF5 in a simple, one-step procedure, and are cha
racterized by FT Raman, FTIR and C-13 MAS NMR spectroscopy.