Electron counting isoelectronic compound

Counting NO as a three-electron donor, [IrCl(NO)(PPh3)2]+ is, therefore, a 16-electron species isoelectronic with Vaska s compound, isolable as a red crystalline hexafluorophosphate (m.p. 211°C, i/(N-0) 1870 cm-1) or similar perchlorate and tetrafluoroborate a trans-structure is indicated by spectroscopic data, and it is presumed to have a linear Ir-N-0 grouping. 

The adoption of two different geometries for these isoelectronic Au6Pt clusters is probably due to electronic differences between the carbon monoxide and acetylide ligands, as neither ligand is sterically demanding in these compounds. However, both cluster compounds adopt metal cage geometries that are best described as hemispherical, as expected from their valence electron counts. 

The six-membered (RPS)3 has a chair cyclohexane conformation, while (RPS)4 has a crown (Sg) structure, which is as predicted from simple electron counting, since CH2, RP, and S are isoelectronic. Although the six-membered ring is thermally stable, the eight-membered ring compound (which has smaller substituents on phosphoras) forms (RPS2)2 on standing in toluene solution. 

The electron-counting schemes can be extended to isoelectronic species such as the carboranes (also known as carbaboranes). The CH" unit is isoelectronic with BH many compounds are known in which one or more BH groups have been replaced by CH (or by C, which also has the same number of electrons as BH). For example, replacement of two BH groups by CH" " in yields closo-C- Bayif, a neutral compound. 

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