An unprecedented tetranuclear niobium aqua ion with a capping mu4-sulfido ligand

Autor: Inger Søtofte, Maja F. Bendtsen, Loa C. Nielsen, Astrid Munch, Jonas Rosager Henriksen, Bee-Lean Ooi
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: Inorganic chemistry. 44(3)
ISSN: 0020-1669
Popis: The aqueous solution chemistry of niobium is rather unexplored, and well characterized aqua complexes are scarce. In this work, a new niobium aqua ion is obtained upon treatment of Zn-reduced ethanolic solutions of NbCl5 with HCl in the presence of a sulfide source. The red aqua ion, obtained upon cation-exchange chromatography, forms readily the thiocyanate complex which has been crystallized as Cs(4.26)Na(1.74)[Nb4SO5(NCS)10] . 0.33H2O. X-ray crystallography revealed an unprecedented metal-metal bonded tetranuclear Nb4(mu4-S)(mu2-O)5(4+) core with a capping mu4-S ligand.
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