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Chelladurai Ganesamoorthy1, Jana Weßing, Clarissa Kroll
1Anorganische Chemie II-Organometallics & Materials, Fakultät für Chemie und Biochemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum (Germany).
Abstract:
Defined molecular models for the surface chemistry of Hume-Rothery nanophases related to catalysis are very rare. The Al-Cu intermetalloid cluster [(Cp*AlCu)6H4] was selectively obtained from the clean reaction of [(Cp*Al)4] and [(Ph3PCuH)6]. The stronger affinity of Cp*Al towards Cu sweeps the phosphine ligands from the copper hydride precursor and furnishes an octahedral Al6 cage to encapsulate the Cu6 core. The resulting hydrido cluster M12H4 reacts with benzonitrile to give the stoichiometric hydrometalation product [(Cp*AlCu)6H3(N=CHPh)].
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