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RuCo 2 (CO) 11 and Ru 2 Co 2 (CO) 13 , Two New “Pure” Carbonylmetal Clusters
Author(s) -
Roland Eckehart,
Vahrenkamp Heinrich
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.198106791
Subject(s) - chemistry , cobalt , ruthenium , cluster (spacecraft) , tetrahedron , crystallography , polyhedron , stereochemistry , inorganic chemistry , catalysis , organic chemistry , geometry , mathematics , computer science , programming language
The air‐stable carbonyl‐ruthenium‐cobalt compound Ru, Co 2 (CO) 13 , prepared from the readily accessible, likewise novel cluster RuCo 2 (CO) 11 , contains a distorted Ru 2 Co 2 tetrahedron with unsymmetrically distributed CO ligands. The polyhedron formed by the O atoms of the CO groups is the [13]‐polyhe‐dron of lowest energy. This is a further example illustrating that the structure of polynuclear carbonyl complexes depends on the spatial distribution of the ligands rather than on the localization of the bond relationships.