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Makoto Tanabe1, Naoko Ishikawa, Mai Chiba
1Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259-R1-3 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan.
Abstract:
A complex with a planar hexagonal Pd(4)Ge(3) core, [Pd{Pd(dmpe)}(3)(μ(3)-GePh(2))(3)], was synthesized and characterized by X-ray and NMR measurements as well as by DFT calculations. 4-tert-Butylbenzenethiol converted the Pd(4) complex into a hexapalladium complex, [{Pd(3)(μ-GePh(2))(2)(μ-H)(μ(3)-GePh(2)(SC(6)H(4)(t)Bu-4))}(2)(μ-dmpe)], composed of two Pd(3)Ge(3) units bridged by a dmpe ligand. The addition of CuI or AgI to the Pd(4) complex yielded [Pd(μ-MI){Pd(dmpe)}(3)(μ(3)-GePh(2))(3) ] (M = Cu, Ag), in which Cu or Ag bridges a Pd-Pd bond of the Pd(4)Ge(3) core. The CuI adducts in solution undergo a pivot motion of the CuI on the surface of the Pd(4)Ge(3) plane on the NMR time scale.
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