An electron-poor di-molybdenum triple-decker with a puckered [B4Ru2] bridging ring is an oblato-closo cluster†‡
Bijan Mondal,Bijnaneswar Mondal,Koushik Pal,Babu Varghese,Sundargopal Ghosh
Chemical Communications Pub Date : 01/27/2015 00:00:00 , DOI:10.1039/C4CC09630D
Abstract

An unprecedented, 22-valence-electron triple-decker sandwich complex [(Cp*Mo)2{μ-η66-B4H4Ru2(CO)6}], 2, has been prepared. In an effort to generate analogous triple-deckers with group 6 metal carbonyl fragments in the middle deck, we have isolated [(Cp*MoCO)2(μ-H)2B4H4], 3, that provides the first direct evidence for the missing link between [(Cp*MoCl)2B3H7] and [(Cp*Mo)2B5H9] clusters.

Graphical abstract: An electron-poor di-molybdenum triple-decker with a puckered [B4Ru2] bridging ring is an oblato-closo cluster