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Adrian M V Brânzanic¹, Alexandru Lupan¹, R Bruce King²

¹Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. alupan@chem.ubbcluj.ro.

Dalton Transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)

|May 18, 2016

Abstract:

The structures and energetics of the complete series of hydrogen-rich dimetallaboranes Cp2M2B6H10 and Cp*2M2B6H10 (Cp = η(5)-C5H5; Cp* = η(5)-Me5C5; M = Pd, Pt; Rh, Ir; Ru, Os; Re; Mo, W; Ta), including the experimentally known Cp*2Rh2B6H10 and Cp*2W2B6H10 (Cp* = η(5)-Me5C5), have been investigated by density functional theory. The lowest energy structures of the hyperelectronic Cp2M2B6H10 (M = Pd, Pt; Rh, Ir) systems have central M2B6 frameworks with a hexagonal open face similar to the B8 networks in arachno-B8H14 and nido-B8H12. The two lowest energy structures for Cp2Rh2B6H10 and Cp*2Rh2B6H10, lying within 1 kcal mol(-1) of energy, differ only in the locations of the bridging hydrogen atoms around the hexagonal hole consistent with the experimentally observed fluxionality of the hydrogen atoms in Cp*2Rh2B6H10. Most of the lowest energy Cp2M2B6H10 (M = Ru, Os) structures also have a central M2B6 framework similar to B8H12, typically with such additional features as an additional metal-metal bond or a formal metal-metal double bond. A common motif for the low-energy structures of the hypoelectronic Cp2M2B6H10 (M = Re; Mo, W; Ta) systems, including the experimentally known Cp*2W2B6H10, is a central M2B4 octahedron with its two M2B faces capped by the remaining boron atoms and with four M-B edges bridged by hydrogen atoms. Such structures can also be considered as oblatonido structures derived from the experimentally known 9-vertex oblatocloso Cp*2Re2B7H7 structure by removal of the unique degree 4 vertex atom.

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