Synthesis, molecular and electronic structure of an incomplete cuboidal Re3S4 cluster with an unusual quadruplet ground state

Pavel A Petrov; Alexander V Virovets; Artem S Bogomyakov; Rosa Llusar; Carlos J Gómez-García; Víctor Polo; Sergey N Konchenko

doi:10.1039/c2cc17287a

Synthesis, molecular and electronic structure of an incomplete cuboidal Re3S4 cluster with an unusual quadruplet ground state

Chem Commun (Camb). 2012 Mar 11;48(21):2713-5. doi: 10.1039/c2cc17287a. Epub 2012 Feb 3.

Authors

Pavel A Petrov¹, Alexander V Virovets, Artem S Bogomyakov, Rosa Llusar, Carlos J Gómez-García, Víctor Polo, Sergey N Konchenko

Affiliation

¹ Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry SB RAS, Ak. Lavrentieva Av., 3, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russian Federation.

PMID: 22301845
DOI: 10.1039/c2cc17287a

Abstract

A Re(IV) cluster complex [Re(3)(μ(3)-S)(μ-S)(3)(dppe)(3)Br(3)](+) with nine cluster skeletal electrons (CSE) and a quadruplet ground state has been prepared by treatment of [Re(3)S(7)Br(6)]Br with 1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane (dppe) in MeCN.