Communication
Oxidation – Reduction and Photochemical Reactions of Metalladecaborane Clusters: The Interconversion of hypercloso-[(η6-C6Me6)RuB9H9] and closo-[(η6-C6Me6)RuB9H9]2−
First published: 13 April 2000
Citations: 25
We thank the National Science Foundation (Grant Nos. CHE-9521572 and 05-27898), the Donors of the Petroleum Research Fund as administered by the American Chemical Society, the Industrial Affiliates Program of the Center for Molecular Electronics, and Syracuse University for support of this work.
Graphical Abstract
Reversible hypercloso – closo interconversion by means of simple redox chemistry: Two-electron reduction of hypercloso-[1-(η6-C6Me6)-1-RuB9H9] (1) gives the closo dianion 22−, which displays the bicapped square-antiprismatic structure expected for a closo cluster with 2n+2 skeletal electrons. The dianion 22− is quantitatively oxidized back to 1 by simple air oxidation.
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