Cluster complexes Group 6 metals

Group 6 Metal Chalcogenide Cluster Complexes and Their Relationships to Solid-State Cluster Compounds Taro Saito... 

Many carbonyl and carbonyl metallate complexes of the second and third row, in low oxidation states, are basic in nature and, for this reason, adequate intermediates for the formation of metal— metal bonds of a donor-acceptor nature. Furthermore, the structural similarity and isolobal relationship between the proton and group 11 cations has lead to the synthesis of a high number of cluster complexes with silver—metal bonds.1534"1535 Thus, silver(I) binds to ruthenium,15 1556 osmium,1557-1560 rhodium,1561,1562 iron,1563-1572 cobalt,1573 chromium, molybdenum, or tungsten,1574-1576 rhe-nium, niobium or tantalum, or nickel. Some examples are shown in Figure 17. 

Dinuclear Pt complexes of the type [ Pt(PR3) 2(p-S)2] are also known to serve as the good precursors to the trinuclear clusters. A series of triangular cluster cores M Pt2(p3-S)2 has been constructed therefrom (M = transition metals, main-group metals).50... 

Butterfly Cluster Complexes of the Group VIII Transition Metals Sargeson, Alan M., see Hendry, Philip Sanon, G., see Fleischauer, P. D. Sawyer, Donald T., see Sobkowiak, Andrzej Sawyer, Jeffery F., and Gillespie, Ronald J., The Stereochemistry of SB (HI) 35 437... 

This observation may well explain the considerable difference between metal-olefin and metal-acetylene chemistry observed for the trinuclear metal carbonyl compounds of this group. As with iron, ruthenium and osmium have an extensive and rich chemistry, with acetylenic complexes involving in many instances polymerization reactions, and, as noted above for both ruthenium and osmium trinuclear carbonyl derivatives, olefin addition normally occurs with interaction at one olefin center. The main metal-ligand framework is often the same for both acetylene and olefin adducts, and differs in that, for the olefin complexes, two metal-hydrogen bonds are formed by transfer of hydrogen from the olefin. The steric requirements of these two edgebridging hydrogen atoms appear to be considerable and may reduce the tendency for the addition of the second olefin molecule to the metal cluster unit and hence restrict the equivalent chemistry to that observed for the acetylene derivatives. 

The groups of Philipsborn [84], Heaton [85-88] and Mann [89-91] have used ° Rh NMR extensively to elucidate structural and mechanistic aspects of a wide variety of metal carbonyl and metal cluster complexes. Further, Zamaraevl [92] has shown that NMR studies on several quadrupolar nuclei, e. g. Mo, help with the characterization of the alkyl peroxo-complexes, which are thought to be inter-... 

GROUP 6 METAL CHALCOGENIDE CLUSTER COMPLEXES AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS TO SOLID-STATE CLUSTER COMPOUNDS... 

The structural relationship between the molecular and solid-state compounds has been a hot issue in inorganic chemistry for some time (25-27). The extrusion (or excision) from preformed solid-state cluster compounds is one of the major synthetic methods of the preparation of cluster complexes (26). Use of cluster complexes as precursors to solid-state cluster compounds is the reverse reaction of excision. Both reactions utilize the structural similarity of the metal cluster units. The basic cluster units of polyhedra (deltahedra) or raft structures are triangles, and both molecular and solid-state clusters with octahedral, tetrahedral, and rhomboidal cores have been reported. Similarity of other properties such as electronic structures based on the cluster units is also important. The present review is concerned with the syntheses and structures of the cluster complexes of the group 6 metals and with their relationships to solid-state chemistry. 

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