title: Crown compounds for anions: sandwich and half-sandwich complexes of cyclic trimetric perfluoro-o-phenylenemercury with polyhedral closo-[B10H10]2- and closo-[B12H12]2- anions.
abstract: It has been shown by IR and NMR spectroscopy that cyclic trimeric perfluoro-o-phenylenemercury (o-C6F4-Hg)3 (1) is capable of binding closo-[B10H10]2- and closo-[B12H12]2- anions to form complexes [[(o-C6F4Hg)3](B10-H10)]2- (2), [[(o-C6F4Hg)3]2(B10H10)]2-(3), [[(o-C6F4Hg)3](B12H12)]2- (4), and [[(o-C6F4Hg)3]2(B12H12)]2- (5). According to IR data, the bonding of the [B10H10]2- and [B12H12]2- ions to the macrocycle in these complexes is accomplished through the formation of B-H-Hg bridges. Complexes 2, 3, and 5 have been isolated in analytically pure form and have been characterized by spectroscopic means. X-ray diffraction studies of 3 and 5 have revealed that these compounds have unusual sandwich structures, in which the polyhedral di-anion is located between the planes of two molecules of 1 and is bonded to each of them through two types of B-H-Hg bridges. One type is the simultaneous coordination of a B-H group to all three Hg atoms of the macrocycle. The other type is the coordination of a B-H group to a single Hg atom of the cycle. According to X-ray diffraction data, complex 2 has an analogous but half-sandwich structure. The obtained complexes 2-5 are quite stable; their stability constants in THF/acetone (1:1) at 20 degrees C have been determined as 1.0 x 10(2)Lmol(-1), 2.6 x 10(3)L(2)mol(2), 0.7 x 10(2)Lmol(-1), and 0.98 x 10(3)L(2)mol(-2), respectively.
authors.affiliation: A.N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
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