ISSN:
0009-2940
Keywords:
π-Complexes of p-block elements
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Arene complexes
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Arsenic complexes
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Antimony complexes
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Chemistry
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Inorganic Chemistry
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
1,2,4,5-Tetramethyl-and pentamethylbenzene from stable 1:2 complexes with SbCl3 of the type (C6H6-Men) · 2SbCl3(1,2) with an inverse sandwich structure. The compounds crystallize isotypically and are isostructural to the (hexamethylbenzene)antimony and -bismuth complexes.They are thus built of tetrameric chlorine-bridged Sb4Cl12 units, which are crosslinked at the metal centers with four other tetramers by double-sided arene coordination (X-ray structure analysis of 1). The Sb atoms, which are in a distorted trigonal bipyramidal environment, show a slight deviation from a centric (η6) coordination. The same stoichiometry and the same structural principle are found for the complex (C6Me6 · 2 AsCl3 (4), which is obtained from solutions of hexamethylbenzene and AsCl3 in toluene. In 4 the arsenic atoms are η6-coordinated to the hexamethylbenzene ring from both sides (X-ray analysis). Treatment of AsBr3 with hexamethylbenzene leads to a product of the composition 5 (C6Me6) · AsBr3. Reaction of hexaethylbenzene with AsCl3 in petroleum ether leads to the formation of the 1:2 complex (C6Et6) · 2 AsCl3 (5), built of discrete inverse sandwich units, which are arranged in strings parallel to the crystallographic c axis. From solutions of AsCl3 (AsBr3), SbCl3 (SbBr3) and hexaethylbenzene in petroleum ether ternary compounds are isolated with an As:Sb ratio of 1:5.2 and 1:1.86, respectively. Single crystal X-ray structure determinations failed as a consequence of severe disorder.
Additional Material:
4 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cber.19901230602
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