Cluster compounds reactions

Au(PRj) fragment addition, 39 329-332 coreduction, 39 332-333 gold atom addition, 39 332 miscellaneous reactions, 39 333-334 performed gold cluster compound reactions, 39 333... 

The interaction of polycations with free chalcogens leads, in some cases, to new cluster compounds. Reaction of the aromatic tetraatomic selenium dication with diphenyldiselenide affords Ph2Se6 - compound 159 with a six-membered selenium ring (Scheme 66). ... 

Many novel cluster compounds have now been prepared in this way, including mixed metal clusters. Further routes involve the oxidative fusion of dicarbon metallacarborane anions to give dimetal tetracarbon clusters such as (103) and (104) O (jjg insertion of isonitriles into inetallaborane clusters to give monocarbon meiallacarboranes such as (105) and the reaction of small ii/t/o-carboranes with alane adducts such as Et3NAlH3 to give the commo species (106) ... 

Novel reactions of metal carbonyl cluster compounds, R. D. Adams and 1. T. Horvarth, Prog. Inorg. Chem., 1985, 33,127 (200). 

These carbene (or alkylidene) complexes are used for various transformations. Known reactions of these complexes are (a) alkene metathesis, (b) alkene cyclopropanation, (c) carbonyl alkenation, (d) insertion into C-H, N-H and O-H bonds, (e) ylide formation and (f) dimerization. The reactivity of these complexes can be tuned by varying the metal, oxidation state or ligands. Nowadays carbene complexes with cumulated double bonds have also been synthesized and investigated [45-49] as well as carbene cluster compounds, which will not be discussed here [50]. 

The other product (VI) is formed in traces. These reactions form Au-Ru Au-Os , Ag-Fe and Ag-Rh clusters and compounds with bridged Ag— and Au—bonds. Syntheses of cluster compounds containing Cu, Ag or Au and other transition metals are available . 

The interaction of butadiynediyl dimetal complexes [Fp -C -CsC-M, Fp =FeCp (CO)2, M= Fp, Rp, SiMea, Rp= RuCp(CO)2] with diiron nonacarbonyl, Fe2(CO)9, results in the formation of a mixture of products, as is also observed in the case of their interaction with organic acetylenes. Interesting polymetallic complexes, propargylidene-ketene compounds, zwitterionic cluster compounds, and pa-p -propargylidene-cyclobutene compoimds were isolated from the reaction mixtures and successfully characterized. The product distributions were found to be dependent on the metal fragment (M) at the other end of the C4 rod. The results of the reaction are described... 

The reactions of the butadiynediyldimetal(Fe, Ru) complexes with Fe2(CO)ci at room temperature afforded mixtures of products, from which three types of products, viz. the ps-acetylide cluster compound 4, the pj-ti -propargylidene-ketene compound 5 and zwitterionic cluster compound 6, were isolated. While the reaction with an excess amount of Co2(CO)g results in addition to the sterically congested Fp -C=C part [6]. The distributions of the products were dependent on the metal fragments situated at the other end of the conjugated carbon rod. The cluster compounds so obtained were characterized by spectroscopic and... 

All these results indicate that one is just at the beginning of understanding the function of catalysts being deposited on a semiconductor. There is still quite a confusion in many papers published in this field. Therefore the catalytic properties depend so much on the procedure of deposition . It seems to be rather difficult to produce a catalyst for 02-formation, as shown by results obtained with Ti02 (see e.g.) . Rather recently new concepts for the synthesis of new catalysts have been developed applicable for multielectron transfer reactions. Examples are transition metal cluster compounds such as M04 2RU1 gSeg and di- and trinuclear Ru-complexes . 

Thomas and his colleagues in Cambridge have pioneered the development of nanoparticles prepared from cluster compounds and supported in meso-porous silica.31 Highly active and effective catalysts have been developed for a number of hydrogenation reactions. The significant factors controlling... 

Such a classification of technetium cluster compounds, in our opinion, reflects the relationship between the thermal stability and structure of the clusters quite well. Moreover, on the basis of this classification it is easier to follow the mechanism of the main thermochemical transitions of technetium clusters, such as (1) dehydration (2) disproportionation and related processes occurring without changes or with only small changes in mass (3) one-stage processes of thermolysis. We shall now consider these main mechanisms of the thermochemical reactions of technetium clusters in greater detail. 

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