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Homoleptic dirhodium tetraoctanoate and its pyridine adduct: synthesis and crystal structures

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Dirhodium tetraoctanoate (1), without any exogenous axial ligands, has been obtained in crystalline form by slow evaporation from ethanol. The molecules are linked by axially ligating each other to form infinite chains, which is similar to the only other two structurally characterized rhodium(II) carboxylates, Rh2(O2CCF3)4 and Rh2(O2CC3H7)4, which also lack exogenous axial ligands. The infinite chains of 1 are cleaved by strong donor solvents such as pyridine to produce the corresponding pyridine adduct (2). Both the complexes were characterized by elemental analysis, MS, IR and NMR spectra.

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This work was financially supported by Yunnan Provincial Science and Technology Department of P. R. China (No: 2008IA008,2008CF002, 2009CD006 and 2009CD133).

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    Qing-Song Ye, Xi-Zhu Chen, Wei-Ping Liu & Jia-Lin Chen

  2. Department of Chemistry, Yunnan University, 650031, Kunming, China

    Ming-Jin Xie

  3. Sino-Platinum Corporation, 650106, Kunming, China

    Zai-Fu Pan

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Ye, QS., Chen, XZ., Xie, MJ. et al. Homoleptic dirhodium tetraoctanoate and its pyridine adduct: synthesis and crystal structures. Transition Met Chem 35, 585–590 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11243-010-9367-9

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