A high-nuclearity Ni-Sb carbonyl cluster displaying unprecedented metal stereochemistries: synthesis and X-ray structure of [NEt4](6)[Ni31Sb4(CO)(40)]center dot 2 Me2CO
C. Femoni et al., A high-nuclearity Ni-Sb carbonyl cluster displaying unprecedented metal stereochemistries: synthesis and X-ray structure of [NEt4](6)[Ni31Sb4(CO)(40)]center dot 2 Me2CO, CHEM COMMUN, (8), 2000, pp. 655-656
The mild oxidation of [NEt4](2)[Ni15Sb(CO)(24)] in acetone solution with Sb
Cl3 in a ca. 3 : 1 molar ratio leads to the new high-nuclearity [Ni31Sb4(CO
)(40)](6-) hexaanion, which displays two interstitial Ni and four semi-inte
rstitial Sb atoms with unprecedented stereochemistries.