title: An electron-poor di-molybdenum triple-decker with a puckered [B4Ru2] bridging ring is an oblato-closo cluster.
abstract: An unprecedented, 22-valence-electron triple-decker sandwich complex [(Cp*Mo)2{μ-η(6):η(6)-B4H4Ru2(CO)6}], 2, has been prepared. In an effort to generate analogous triple-deckers with group 6 metal carbonyl fragments in the middle deck, we have isolated [(Cp*MoCO)2(μ-H)2B4H4], 3, that provides the first direct evidence for the missing link between [(Cp*MoCl)2B3H7] and [(Cp*Mo)2B5H9] clusters.
authors: Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, 600 036, India. sghosh@iitm.ac.in.
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