title: Lanthanide hydroxide cubane clusters anchoring ferrocenes: model compounds for fixation of organometallic fragments on a lanthanide oxide surface.
abstract: The reaction of the lanthanide trichloride hexahydrates [LnCl(3).6H(2)O] (Ln = Yb, Lu) with two equivalents of benzoylferrocenoylmethane resulted in the tetranuclear lanthanide hydroxo clusters [Ln(4)(mu(3)-OH)(4)(FcacacPh)(8)] (Ln = Yb (1), Lu (2); FcacacPh = benzoylferrocenoylmethanide). Compounds 1 and 2 are made up of a distorted tetranuclear lanthanide Ln(4)O(4) cubane core consisting of four mu(3)-oxygen atoms while the eight FcacacPh ligands build up the peripheral part of the cluster. These compounds contain the maximum number of ferrocene units anchored to any molecular metal-heteroatom framework reported so far and for which the X-ray structures are known.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Viswanathan
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Baskar
authors.forename: Peter W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Roesky