High-Nuclearity Carbonyl Clusters: Their

High-Nuclearity Carbonyl Clusters Their Synthesis and Reactivity Maria D. Vargas and J. Nicola Nicholls... 

M. D. Vargas, and J. N. Nicholls, High-Nuclearity Carbonyl Clusters Their Synthesis and Reactivity, Adv. Inorg. Chem. Radiochem. 30, 123-222 (1986). 

HIGH-NUCLEARITY CARBONYL CLUSTERS THEIR SYNTHESIS AND REACTIVITY... 

Interest in the high nuclearity carbonyl clusters of ruthenium has centered around the hexanuclear carbido-cluster Ru6C(CO)17 and its derivatives, Ru5C(CO)15 and, more recently, [Ru C CO) ]2-.1 The chemistry of both Ru6C(CO)17 and Ru5C(CO)15 has been investigated in some detail. Their syntheses are described below. 

Their number, however, is small compared to the rich cluster chemistry found for other transition metals, possibly because of the lower stability of palladium carbonyls. High nuclearity clusters are dealt with in another article (see Polynuclear Organometallic Cluster Complexes). 

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