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Published on: October 3, 2014
Dicarbon-yl(η-cyclo-penta-dien-yl)bis-(trimethyl-phosphine)molybdenum(II) trifluoro-methane-sulfonate
Samuel Jali1, Holger B Friedrich, Muhammad D Bala
1School of Chemistry, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville Campus, Private Bag X54001, Durban 4000, South Africa.
Abstract:
In the title compound, [Mo(C(5)H(5))(CO)(2)(C(3)H(9)P)(2)]CF(3)SO(3), the cationic complex displays a classical four-legged piano-stool square-pyramidal geometry with a trans configuration of the basal ligands around the Mo atom. The cyclo-penta-dienyl (Cp) ligand occupies the apical position of the piano-stool configuration. The average Mo-P bond length of the two trans PMe(3) ligands is 2.474 (5) Å and the Mo-Cp centroid distance is 2.003 (2) Å.
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