Conversion of ethylene into ethylidyne on a mixed-metal cluster: synthesis and structure of IrRu4(CO)(15)(mu(4)-CH3)
Author(s)
Haak, Susanne
Neels, Antonia
Date issued
1999
In
Inorganic Chemistry Communications
Vol
2
No
2
From page
60
To page
61
Subjects
mixed-metal clusters ruthenium iridium ethylene ethylidyne TROPSCH CHAIN GROWTH TRIRUTHENIUM CLUSTERS MODEL
Abstract
The thermal reaction of the tetranuclear cluster HIrRu3(CO)(13) with ethylene in hexane (90 degrees C, 2 bar) affords, in addition to H3IrRu3(CO)(12), the pentanuclear cluster HIrRu4(CO)(15)(mu(4)-C-CH3) (1) in which the ethylidyne ligand is coordinated through a carbon atom to the four ruthenium atoms in the IrRu4 core. In this reaction, the CH2=CH2 molecule has been transformed into a C-CH3 moiety coordinated as a mu(4)-ligand to the cluster. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.
Publication type
journal article