A. Maiboroda et H. Lang, Homobinuclear complexes of osmium(IV) with nitrogen-containing pi-conjugated bridging units, NEW J CHEM, 25(4), 2001, pp. 642-646
The synthesis as well as chemical and physical properties of anionic homobi
nuclear osmium(Iv) complexes of the general type [AsPh4](2)[OsCl5(LL)OsCl5]
[LL = pyrazine (6), 4,4'-bipyridine (7) 1,4-dicyanobenzene (8) and 4-cyano
pyridine (9)] is described. While 6 and 9 exhibit strong (6) or weak (9) in
tramolecular electronic communication between the Os(IV) centres, in 7 and
8 the metals can be considered non-interacting.