[Mu-6,9-Cl-8-(OMe)-6,9-eta5-C5Me5)2-arachno-6,9,5-rh2SB7H7].
The title compound, mu-6,9-chloro-8-methoxy-6,9-bis(eta5-pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)-6,9-dirhoda-5-thia-arachno-decaborane(7), [Rh2(CH10B7OS)(C10H15)2Cl], has a single Cl atom bridging the two remote rhodium 'prow' vertices of an arachno ten-vertex dirhodathiadecaborane cluster, with Rh-Cl distances of 2.3475 (11) and 2.3536 (11) A, and an Rh-Cl-Rh angle of 106.82 (4) degrees.
Bould
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School of Chemistry, The University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, England. bould@chem.leeds.ac.uk
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