Fa. Cotton et al., EFFICIENT PREPARATION OF A LINEAR, SYMMETRICAL, METAL-METAL BONDED TRICOBALT COMPOUND - SHOULD WE BELIEVE THERE IS A BOND-STRETCH ISOMER, Chemical communications, (5), 1997, pp. 421-422
The synthesis in 42% yield of a linear, symmetrical, fully Co-Co bonde
d [2.3178(9) Angstrom] trinuclear complex [Co-3(dpa)(4)Cl-2] [Hdpa = b
is(2-pyridyl)amine] is reported, and its crystal structure presented.