[Cp*RuPb11]3- and [Cu@Cp*RuPb11]2-: centered and non-centered transition-metal substituted zintl icosahedra

Ai-Min Li; Yi Wang; Peter Y Zavalij; Fu Chen; Alvaro Muñoz-Castro; Bryan W Eichhorn

doi:10.1039/d0cc03656k

[CpRuPb₁₁]^3- and [Cu@CpRuPb₁₁]^2-: centered and non-centered transition-metal substituted zintl icosahedra

Chem Commun (Camb). 2020 Sep 21;56(74):10859-10862. doi: 10.1039/d0cc03656k. Epub 2020 Aug 13.

Authors

Ai-Min Li¹, Yi Wang, Peter Y Zavalij, Fu Chen, Alvaro Muñoz-Castro, Bryan W Eichhorn

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. [email protected].

PMID: 32789413
DOI: 10.1039/d0cc03656k

Abstract

Cluster anions [Cp*RuPb₁₁]^3- (1) and [Cu@Cp*RuPb₁₁]^2- (2) represent the first vertex-substituted zintl icosahedra and 1 is the first non-centered zintl icosahedron isolated in the condensed phase. Complexes 1 and 2 are both 12-vertex, 26-electron closo-clusters with C_5v point symmetry and are static on the ²⁰⁷Pb NMR time scale in solution.