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Combining Solid-state and Solution-based Techniques: Synthesis and Reactivity of Chalcogenidoplumbates(II or IV)
Published on: December 29, 2016
Tris(triphenylplumbyl)plumbate: an anion with three stretched lead-lead bonds
Frank Stabenow1, Wolfang Saak, Manfred Weidenbruch
1Fachbereich Chemie, Universität Oldenburg, D-26111 Oldenburg, Germany.
Abstract:
Treatment of lead(II) bromide with phenylmagnesium bromide at low temperature furnishes yellow crystals of the ionic compound [BrMg(THF)5]+ [:Pb(PbPh3)3]- which, upon X-ray crystallographic analysis, reveals three stretched Pb-Pb bonds and Pb-Pb-Pb angles of about 93 degrees.
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