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Synthesis and structure of a family of rhodium polystannide clusters [Rh@Sn10]3–, [Rh@Sn12]3–, [Rh2@Sn17]6– and the first triply-fused stannide, [Rh3@Sn24]5–†

Chao Liu,ab   Xiao Jin,c   Lei-Jiao Li,d   Jun Xu, ORCID logo a   John E. McGrady ORCID logo *c  and  Zhong-Ming Sun ORCID logo *ab  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Materials Science and Engineering & National Institute for Advanced Materials, Tianjin Key Lab for Rare Earth Materials and Applications, Center for Rare Earth and Inorganic Functional Materials, State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China
E-mail: sunlab@nankai.edu.cn
Web: http://zhongmingsun.weebly.com

b State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 5625 Renmin Street, Changchun, Jilin 130022, China
E-mail: szm@ciac.ac.cn

c Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QR, UK
E-mail: john.mcgrady@chem.ox.ac.uk

d School of Chemistry & Environmental Engineering, Changchun University of Science & Technology, Changchun 130022, China

Abstract

Through relatively subtle changes in reaction conditions, we have been able to isolate four distinct Rh/Sn cluster compounds, [Rh@Sn10]3−, [Rh@Sn12]3−, [Rh2@Sn17]6− and [Rh3@Sn24]5–, from the reaction of K4Sn9 with [(COE)2Rh(μ-Cl)]2(COE = cyclooctene). The last of these has a hitherto unknown molecular topology, an edge-fused polyhedron containing three Rh@Sn10 subunits, and represents the largest endohedral Group 14 Zintl cluster yet to have been isolated from solution. DFT has been used to place these new species in the context of known cluster chemistry. ESI-MS experiments on the reaction mixtures reveal the ubiquitous presence of {RhSn8} fragments that may play a role in cluster growth.

Graphical abstract: Synthesis and structure of a family of rhodium polystannide clusters [Rh@Sn10]3–, [Rh@Sn12]3–, [Rh2@Sn17]6– and the first triply-fused stannide, [Rh3@Sn24]5–

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C8SC03948H
Article type
Edge Article
Submitted
05 Sep 2018
Accepted
10 Mar 2019
First published
11 Mar 2019
This article is Open Access

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Chem. Sci., 2019,10, 4394-4401

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Synthesis and structure of a family of rhodium polystannide clusters [Rh@Sn10]3–, [Rh@Sn12]3–, [Rh2@Sn17]6– and the first triply-fused stannide, [Rh3@Sn24]5–

C. Liu, X. Jin, L. Li, J. Xu, J. E. McGrady and Z. Sun, Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 4394 DOI: 10.1039/C8SC03948H

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