A. Eichhofer et D. Fenske, SYNTHESES AND STRUCTURES OF NEW COPPER(I) SELENIDE CLUSTERS [CU32SE16(PPH3)(12)], [CU52SE26(PPH3)(16)] AND [CU72SE36(PPH3)(20)], Journal of the Chemical Society. Dalton transactions, (18), 1998, pp. 2969-2972
The reaction of Se(SiMe3)(2) with copper(I) acetate in the presence of
PPh3 yielded the new clusters [Cu32Se16(PPh3)(12)] 2, [Cu52Se26(PPh3)
(16)] 3 and [Cu72Se36(PPh3)(20)] 4 depending on the conditions. The mo
lecular structures of 2, 3 and 4 have been characterised by X-ray crys
tallography and compared with the known cluster [Cu146Se73(PPh3)(30)]
1 obtained from the same reaction under different conditions.