Metal cluster compounds halide clusters

PPha, pyridine) organic groups (olefines, aromatic derivatives) and also form other derivatives, e.g. halides, hydrides, sulphides, metal cluster compounds Compounds containing clusters of metal atoms linked together by covalent (or co-ordinate) bands, metaldehyde, (C2H40) ( = 4 or 6). A solid crystalline substance, sublimes without melting at I12 1I5" C stable when pure it is readily formed when elhanal is left in the presence of a catalyst at low temperatures, but has unpredictable stability and will revert to the monomer, ft is used for slug control and as a fuel. 

A review28 describes compounds of the Pt-group metals including halide, oxide, sulfide, coordination compounds, organometallic compounds, and metal cluster compounds. 

There are several interesting families of inorganic mixed-valence compounds that we have not discussed here (see Yvon, 1979 McCarley, 1982). For example, there are metal-cluster compounds such as the Chevrel phases, M,jMo6X8(X = S or Se) and condensed metal-cluster chain compounds such as TlMojScj, TijTe, NaMo O and M PtjO. TTF halides and TTF-TCNQ complexes (Section 1.9) constitute molecular mixed-valent systems in which the mixed valency is associated with an entire molecule the charge on TTF in such compounds is nonintegral. The structure of TTF-Br(, 79 and... 

Metal cluster compounds can be conveniently grouped into two classes (I) polynuclear carbonyls, nitrosyls. and related compounds and (II) halide and oxide complexes. The former group was included m Chapter 15. The second class will be discussed in this section.146... 

To relieve the strain of sterically demanding ligands, a metal often remains coordinatively unsaturated. Copper(I) halides and phosphines form cubane-like metal cluster compounds, Lm(CuX) ,12 With the bulky trimesitylphosphine, a monomeric two-coordinate [CuBr(Pmes)3] is formed, Br—Cu—P = 173.7°.252 The d(Cu—P) of 2.193 A is comparable to that in normal tet-rameric complexes, but d(Cu—Br) at 2.225 A is shorter, no doubt due to the reduced coordination number. Heating crowded complexes can also result in a reduction in coordination number (see equation 65). 

Current interest in metal cluster compounds has arisen from the demonstration that metal-metal bonds play a key role in determining the chemistry of large classes of compounds, in particular, those with heavy metal atoms in low valent states. The occurrence of metal-metal bonding in transition metal complexes has been surveyed 21, 26, 59, 271, 275), and the criteria for metal-metal bonding and the factors contributing to the stability of such bonds have been discussed. Schafer and Schnering Sll) and more recently Keppert and Vrieze 229) have reviewed the lower halide, oxide, and oxyhalide clusters of the heavier transition metals. Cotton 102) has considered the transition metal clusters in terms of structural types, and a similar approach has been adopted in a review of molecular polyhedra of high coordination number 309). 

The 252(]f.pp) niajj spectrum of metal halides and oxides consists of a family cluster ions of these compounds extending to over mIz 10000, produced by the ejection of small domains of the crystal lattice in the region around the fission track. In addition, cluster ions are also observed that do not correlate with the composition of the crystal lattice, indicating that some of the cluster ions are involved in gas phase reactions in the desorption plume. One of the unique applications of 252(]f.pj) jg elucidation of the composition of large transition metal cluster compounds with values approaching 10. ... 

The known halides of vanadium, niobium and tantalum, are listed in Table 22.6. These are illustrative of the trends within this group which have already been alluded to. Vanadium(V) is only represented at present by the fluoride, and even vanadium(IV) does not form the iodide, though all the halides of vanadium(III) and vanadium(II) are known. Niobium and tantalum, on the other hand, form all the halides in the high oxidation state, and are in fact unique (apart only from protactinium) in forming pentaiodides. However in the -t-4 state, tantalum fails to form a fluoride and neither metal produces a trifluoride. In still lower oxidation states, niobium and tantalum give a number of (frequently nonstoichiometric) cluster compounds which can be considered to involve fragments of the metal lattice. 

Just as, in Group VB, niobium, so, in this Group, molybdenum provides most of the examples of the chalcogenide halides. The occurrence and preparation of such compounds are described in numerous publications. In most cases, they have been obtained as powders, with the composition based on chemical analyses only. The presence of defined, homogeneous phases is, therefore, in many cases doubtful. In addition, some published results are contradictory. A decision is possible where a complete structure analysis has been made. As will be shown later, the formation of metal-metal bonds (so-called clusters), as in the case of niobium, is the most characteristic building-principle. Such clusters... 

Unlike the di-f dihalides, such compounds differ little in energy from both the equivalent quantity of metal and trihalide, and from other combinations with a similar distribution of metal-metal and metal-halide bonding. So the reduced halide chemistry of the five elements shows considerable variety, and thermodynamics is ill-equipped to account for it. All four elements form di-iodides with strong metal-metal interaction, Prl2 occurring in five different crystalline forms. Lanthanum yields Lai, and for La, Ce and Pr there are hahdes M2X5 where X=Br or I. The rich variety of the chemistry of these tri-f compounds is greatly increased by the incorporahon of other elements that occupy interstitial positions in the lanthanide metal clusters [3 b, 21, 22]. 

Investigations of the interaction between 3d transition metals and octahedral halide or oxide metal clusters led to the preparation of a number of novel cluster compounds such as the series AxByNbgClig (A = Li, K, Rb, Cs B=Ti, V, Mn, Cu) [33], and TizNbgOu [34]. 

X-ray crystallography, 40 20-21 synthetic models, 40 23-48 xanthane oxidase, 40 21-23 chalcogenide halides, 23 370-377, 413 Chevrel phases, 23 376-377 metal-metal bonding, 23 330, 373 structural data, 23 373-376 as superconductors, 23 376 synthesis, 23 371-372 chloride, 46 4-24, 35-44 heterocations of, 9 290, 291 cluster compounds, 44 45-46 octahedral, 44 47-49, 53-63 electronic structure, 44 55-63 molecular structure, 44 53-54 synthesis, 44 47-49 rhomboidal, 44 75-82 solid-state clusters and, 44 66-72, 74-75, 80-82, 85-87 tetrahedral, 44 72-75 triangular, 44 82-87 cofactor, 40 2, 4-12 anaerobic isolation, 40 5 molybdopterin and, 40 4-8 reduced form, 40 12 synthesis, 40 8-12 xanthine oxidase, 45 60-63 complexes... 

Several compounds with network structures which contain S2 units can be prepared by high-temperature reactions (250-700 °C). An example of a reaction of a metal halide with sulfur and S2C12 is shown in equation (7). The conditions under which these S2 -containing cluster compounds are formed illustrate their high stability. 

The ionic model is of limited applicability for the heavier transition series (4d and 5d). Halides and oxides in the lower oxidation states tend to disproportionate, chiefly because of the very high atomisation enthalpies of the elemental substances. Many of the lower halides turn out to be cluster compounds, containing metal-metal bonds (see Section 8.5). However, the ionic model does help to rationalise the tendency for high oxidation states to dominate in the 4d and 5d series. As an example, we look at the fluorides MF3 and MF4 of the triad Ti, Zr and Hf. As might be expected, the reaction between fluorine gas and the elemental substances leads to the formation of the tetrafluorides MF4. We now investigate the stabilities of the trifluorides MF3 with respect to the disproportionation ... 

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