Synthesis and crystal structure of a decanuclear silver(I)‐thiolate compound Ag 10 S[S 2 P(OEt) 2 ] 8

A new decanuclear silver(I) compound Ag 10 (μ 8 ‐S)(dtp) 8 [dtp=S 2 P(OEt) 2 ] was isolated from a reaction mixture containing W 2 S 4 (dtp) 2 and AgN0 3 , and its solid‐state molecular structure was determinated by X‐ray crystallography. The crystallographic study revealed that the compound contains a distorted mono‐capped quasi‐prism [Ag io ] with an octat‐bridging S atom at the center of the prism. The compound (C 32 H 80 Ag 10 O 16 P 8 S 17 , M r =2592.46) crystallizes in the monoclinic P2 1 / n space group, with a = 1.5111(5) nm, b =2.3656(8) nm, c =2.284(1) nm, β = 96.88(3)°, V=8.107(5) nm 3 , Z=4 and D,=2.12 g · cm −3 . The solution using direct method and full‐matrix least‐squares refinement led to R= 0.066, Rw= 0.078 for 3928 reflections with I 3σ( I ).