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Reaction of tetracopper(I)-phosphonitocavitand with PhSeSiMe3: Synthesis and structure of a polyanionic cluster [pyH]6[(CuCl) 93-SePh)54-SePh)]

  • Qian Feng Zhang*
  • , Yu Jie Liu
  • , Richard D. Adams
  • , Alexander Rothenberger
  • , Dieter Fenske
  • , Wa Hung Leung
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Treatment of tetracopper(I)-phosphonitocavitand [1•Cu 4(μ-Cl)44-Cl)] (2) (1 = tetraphosphonitocavitand [rccc-2,8,14,20-tetrakis-(iso-butyl)- phosphonitocavitand (C44H48O8P 4Ph4)]) with PhSeSiMe3 in THF at low temperature afforded a novel polyanionic cluster [pyH]6[(CuCl) 93-SePh)54-SePh)] (4) as a major product along with a new tetracopper(I)-phosphonitocavitand (3) with a centered μ3-Cl. Molecular structure of anionic cluster in 4 consists of six PhSe- bridging ligands containing five μ3-SePh and one exceptional μ4-SePh bridging nine copper atoms, of which eight copper atoms have trigonal coordination geometry and the other has distorted tetrahedral geometry.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)445-455
Number of pages11
JournalJournal of Cluster Science
Volume17
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2006

Keywords

  • Copper(I)
  • Copper-selenium cluster
  • Crystal structure
  • Phosphonitocavitand
  • Supramolecular chemistry

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