Electron counting cluster

Characterization of these clusters indicate an unusual 2n framework electron count having geometries reminiscent of stricdy metallic clusters (11,164). 

For tetranuclear cluster complexes, three stmcture types are observed tetrahedral open tetrahedral (butterfly) or square planar, for typical total valence electron counts of 60, 62, and 64, respectively. The earliest tetracarbonyl cluster complexes known were Co4(CO)22, and the rhodium and iridium analogues. The... 

The influence of electron-count on cluster geometry has been very elegantly shown by a crystallographic study of the deep-red compound [K(ctypt)]g [Ge9]- [Ge9] .2.5en, prepared by the reaction of KGe with cryptand in ethylenediamine. [Ge9] has the C4, unicapped square-antiprismatic structure (10.10c) whereas [Ge9]- , with 2 less electrons, adopts a distorted Dit, structure which clearly derives from the tricapped trigonal prism (p. 153).The field is one of... 

Reductions of [PtClg] " in an atmosphere of CO provide a series of clusters, [Pt3(CO)6] ( = 1-6,10) consisting of stacks of Pt3 triangles in slightly twisted columns Pt-Pt = 266 pm in triangles, 303-309 pm between triangular planes (Fig. 27.12). A feature of these and other Pt clusters is that they mostly have electron counts lower than predicted by the usual electron counting rules. In the series just mentioned for instance, = 1 and n — 2 have electron counts of 44 and 86 whereas 48 and 90 would... 

The structure of cluster compounds of transition metals and the limits of applicability of the electron counting rules forpolyhedral molecules. Y. L. Slovokhotov and Y. T. Struchkov, Russ. Chem. Rev. (Engl. Transl), 1985, 54, 323 (150). 

Halet )-F, Saillard )-Y (1997) Electron Count Versus Structural Arrangement in Clusters Based on a Cubic Transition Metal Core with Bridging Main Group Elements. 87 81-110 Hall DI, Ling JH, Nyholm RS (1973) Metal Complexes of Chelating Olefin-Group V Ligands. 15 3-51... 

As holds for other cluster systems, certain magic cluster electron counts exist, which indicates for a certain cluster-halide ratio and interstitial present the filling of all bonding molecular orbitals and therefore the thermodynamically most stable situation. For main group interstitial atoms these are 14 cluster-based electrons whereas for transition-metal interstitials the magic number is 18 [1, 10-12]. All of these phases are synthesized by high-temperature solid-state chemical methods. A remarkable variety of different structure types has been... 

John D. Corbett once said There are many wonders still to be discovered [4]. This certainly holds generally for all the different areas and niches of early transition cluster chemistry and especially for the mixed-hahde systems. The results reported above so far cover a very Hmited selection of only chloride/iodide systems and basically boron as the interstitial. Because of the very sensitive dependence of the stable stracture built in the soHd-state reaction type on parameters like optimal bonding electron counts, number of cations present, size and type of cations (bonding requirements for the cations), metal/halide ratio, and type of halide, a much larger mixed-hahde cluster chemistry can be expected. Further developments, also in mixed-hahde systems, can be expected by using solution chemistry of molecular clusters, excised from solid-state precursors. 

The location of electrons linking more than three atoms cannot be illustrated as easily. The simple, descriptive models must give way to the theoretical treatment by molecular orbital theory. With its aid, however, certain electron counting rules have been deduced for cluster compounds that set up relations between the structure and the number of valence electrons. A bridge between molecular-orbital theory and vividness is offered by the electron-localization function (cf p. 89). 

B8C18 has a dodecahedral Bg c/o.vo-skclclon with 2n = 16 electrons. In this case, the Wade rule neither can be applied, nor can it be interpreted as an electron precise cluster nor as a cluster with 3c2e bonds. B4(BF2)6 has a tetrahedral B4 skeleton with a radially bonded BF2 ligand at each vertex, but it has two more BF2 groups bonded to two tetrahedron edges. In such cases the simple electron counting rules fail. 

Os4Pd6(CO)8(//-CO)8(/x-dppm)2] in low yields, while the reaction of [Os5(/u5-C)(CO)i5] with [Pd2(/u-dppm)2Cl2] afforded [Os5Pd4(/u6-C)(CO)12(/u-CO)3(/u-dppm)2] and [Os5(/X5-C)(CO)13(/r-dppm)] in moderate yields.289 The electron counts found in these osmium-palladium clusters do not always agree with those predicted by skeletal electron counting rules. This may simply be ascribed to the ability of Pd to be satisfied with both 16- and 18-electron counts.289... 

All of these trinuclear clusters are 42e and this is the most common electron count. However, a 46e cluster, [Pt3(/r-CO)(/r-dppm)4]2+ has been obtained by reacting [Pt3(/r-dppm)3(PPh3)] with CO.537 The Pt—Pt bond lengths (2.620-2.648 A) are remarkably similar to those in the 42e clusters.537... 

A useful introduction to the structures of cluster molecules and the electron counting rules proposed by Wade and others. 

Our work was initiated on the reduced ternary molybdenum oxides with the thought that the metal cluster electron count (MCE) should be variable for the Mo308 cluster units. Based on Cotton s previous molecular orbital treatment of such clusters (16) it appeared that MCE s from 6 to 8 could be accommodated, but it was not clear whether the seventh and eighth electrons would occupy bonding or antibonding orbitals with respect to the M-M interactions. We thus set about to determine this from structural data on suitable compounds. The attempted replacement of Zn2+ with Sc3+ to secure the compound ZntSc°Mo308 was conducted via the reaction shown in equation 1. 

Scheme 1). It will be noted that the irBp cluster (Figure ) has the previously unobserved C3V symmetry 1 36363 rather than the normal Dl bicapped square antiprismatic arrangement of vertices. A formal electron count requires 22 electrons (2n + 2) for the closo-cluster bonding of these 18 are supplied by the nine boron atoms, leaving U to be contributed by the Ir atom. 

N.N. Greenwood Whether your compounds are described as hyper-closo or iso-closo depends on the number of electrons assumed to be contributed by the metal atom to the cluster. If, as is generally assumed, ruthenium contributes two electrons to the cluster in compounds such as yours, then RUC2B7 has a closo 22e skeltal electron count (i.e. 2n+2) rather than a 20e hyper-closo count. The uncertainty concerning the most appropriate choice of formal oxidation state for metals in covalent compounds permeates... 

Thus, as the electron count in M3 clusters decreases from 48 to 42, an increase in the degree of unsaturation is anticipated. This effect may be illustrated as... 

This field has developed at a rapid pace since 1968, and a wide range of heteronuclear complexes of the tri- and tetranuclear variety has been established. It will be convenient to discuss the compounds in the first instance on the basis of nuclearity and, for the tetranuclear species, to subdivide the discussion on the basis of the carbonyl stoichiometry and cluster electron count. We have excluded from the discussion the interaction with nontransition elements, such as Hg, Tl, and Cd, which form a wide range of compounds. 

The chemistry and formation of a variety of substitution patterns of the cluster (NHR)B8FIn(NH2R) was studied extensively in the last 10 years.83,91-94 Furthermore, the electron count was discussed hypho-nine-vertex cluster, zzrar 0-eight-vertex versus -eight-vertex cluster.95,96 The formation mechanism of this azaborane and espe-... 

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