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Preparation and Reactivity of a Triphosphenium Bromide Salt: A Convenient and Stable Source of Phosphorus(I)
Published on: November 22, 2016
Bis[μ-1,3-bis-(di-phenyl-phosphan-yl)propane-κ(2) P:P']digold(I) tetra-chloridonickelate(II) diethyl ether
Asako Igashira-Kamiyama1, Takuma Itai, Yuka Arai
1Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan.
Abstract:
The title compound, [Au2(C27H26P2)2][NiCl4]·C4H10O, consists of a digold(I) complex cation, an [NiCl4](2-) complex anion and a diethyl ether solvent mol-ecule. Two 1,3-bis-(di-phenyl-phosphan-yl)propane (dppp) ligands bridge two Au(I) atoms, forming a metallacycle in which each of the Au(I) atoms is coordinated in a slightly distorted linear environment by two P atoms. In the complex anion, the Ni(II) atom is coordinated by four chloride ligands in a distorted tetra-hedral geometry. The complex cation and the complex anion form a cation-anion pair through two Au⋯Cl contacts of 3.040 (1) and 3.021 (2) Å. One of the phenyl groups of the dppp ligand is disordered over two positions with equal occupancies.
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