Water, reaction with aluminum clusters

The linear CO stretching frequency for the carbonylated platinum colloid while lower than that found for surface bound CO, is in the range reported for the platinum carbonyl clusters [Pt 3 (CO) 6 ] n / sind we find that the carbonylated colloid is easily transformed into the molecular cluster [Pt 12 (CO) 24 ] (10) reaction with water. The cluster was isolated in 50 yield based on platinum content of the precipitate by extraction with tetraethylammonium bromide in methanol from the aluminum hydroxide precipitated when water is added to the aluminoxane solution. The isolation of the platinum carbonyl cluster reveals nothing about the size or structure of the colloidal platinum particles, but merely emphasizes the high reactivity of metals in this highly dispersed state. The cluster isolated is presumably more a reflection of the stability of the [Pt3(CO)6]n family of clusters than a clue to the nuclearity of the colloidal metal particles - in a similar series of experiments with colloidal cobalt with a mean particle size of 20A carbonylation results in the direct formation of Co2(CO)8. 

The reaction of zirconium tetrachloride and hexamethylbenzene in the presence of aluminum and aluminum trichloride at 120°C produces a melt, which upon hydrolysis with water in the presence of methylene chloride, yields an organic-soluble species of composition [Zr3(C6(CH3)8-Cle]Cl. The brown product has a magnetic moment at 303°K of 2.04 B.M. Conductivity measurements have been interpreted in terms of the trinuclear cluster cation. It decomposes in nitrogen at 20°-30°C and is rapidly oxidized by oxygen 179). 

---