Mu-6,9-Cl-8-(OMe)-6,9-eta5-C5Me5)2-arachno-6,9,5-rh2SB7H7

J Bould; A Brownless; C A Kilner; M G Londesborough; B Stíbr; J D Kennedy; M Thornton-Pett

doi:10.1107/s0108270100015432

Mu-6,9-Cl-8-(OMe)-6,9-eta5-C5Me5)2-arachno-6,9,5-rh2SB7H7

Acta Crystallogr C. 2001 Jan;57(Pt 1):52-4. doi: 10.1107/s0108270100015432.

Authors

J Bould¹, A Brownless, C A Kilner, M G Londesborough, B Stíbr, J D Kennedy, M Thornton-Pett

Affiliation

¹ School of Chemistry, The University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, England. bould@chem.leeds.ac.uk

PMID: 11173396
DOI: 10.1107/s0108270100015432

Abstract

The title compound, mu-6,9-chloro-8-methoxy-6,9-bis(eta5-pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)-6,9-dirhoda-5-thia-arachno-decaborane(7), [Rh2(CH10B7OS)(C10H15)2Cl], has a single Cl atom bridging the two remote rhodium 'prow' vertices of an arachno ten-vertex dirhodathiadecaborane cluster, with Rh-Cl distances of 2.3475 (11) and 2.3536 (11) A, and an Rh-Cl-Rh angle of 106.82 (4) degrees.