An iron complex with an unsupported Fe-Fe bond.
Full metal bonding: The reduction of a six-coordinate, mononuclear Werner-type iron(II) complex (see scheme) resulted in the isolation of a compound with an extraordinarily rare, unsupported Fe-Fe bond having an experimental Fe-Fe distance of 2.6869(6) A and a calculated bond order of 0.5.
Murillo
Carlos A
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Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77842-3255, USA. murillo@tamu.edu