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Cover Picture: On the Formation of Intermetalloid Clusters: Titanocene(III)diammin as a Versatile Reactant Toward Nonastannide Zintl Clusters (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2/2015)
Author(s) -
Benda Christian B.,
Waibel Markus,
Fässler Thomas F.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201411209
Subject(s) - tin , cluster (spacecraft) , reactivity (psychology) , photochromism , atom (system on chip) , crystallography , metal , chemistry , titanium , singlet state , transition metal , materials science , photochemistry , catalysis , atomic physics , physics , organic chemistry , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , computer science , embedded system , excited state , programming language
Like the seeds of a blowball are distributed in the air, fragments of transition‐metal tin‐cluster complexes are dispersed in solution. In their Communication on page 522 ff., T. F. Fässler and co‐workers report on the versatile reactivity of [Cp 2 TiCl 2 ] in liquid ammonia toward nonastannide Zintl anions and their relevance for the formation of large titanium–tin clusters. Depending on the reaction conditions, clusters of eight and nine Sn atoms are captured and stabilized by Ti atoms. The largest isolated cluster contains one Ti atom that exclusively binds to ten Sn atoms. Cover art designed by D. Marchand Fässler.