title: Macropolyhedral boron-containing cluster chemistry. Cluster opening and B-frame rearrangement in the reaction of B(16)H(20) with [{(IrCl(2)(eta(5)-C(5)Me(5))}(2)]. Synchrotron X-ray structures of [(eta(5)-C(5)Me(5))(2)Ir(2)B(16)H(17)Cl] and [(eta(5)-C(5)Me(5))(2)Ir(2)B(16)H(15)Cl].
abstract: Products from the reaction of + nido ten-vertex : nido eight-vertex, B(16)H(20) with [{(IrCl(2)(eta(5)-C(5)Me(5))}(2)] and tmnd show unanticipated rearrangement of the starting {B(16)} skeleton, as exhibited by + nido ten-vertex : nido ten-vertex, [(eta(5)-C(5)Me(5))(2)Ir(2)B(16)H(17)Cl] which has a {B(2)} edge conjunction and by + nido ten-vertex : nido eleven-vertex, [(eta(5)-C(5)Me(5))(2)Ir(2)B(16)H(15)Cl] which has a {B(3)} face conjunction.
authors.affiliation: The School of Chemistry of the University of Leeds, Leeds, UK LS2 9JT.
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