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Al22 Br20 ⋅12 THF: The First Polyhedral Aluminum Subhalide-A Step on the Path to a New Modification of Aluminum?
Christoph Klemp1, Ralf Köppe1, Edgar Weckert2
1Institut für Anorganische Chemie der Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Engesserstrasse, Geb. 30.45, D-76128 Karlsruhe (Germany), Fax: (+49) 721-608-4854.
Abstract:
The first polyhedral aluminum subhalide Al22 Br20 ⋅20 L forms in the disproportionation of aluminum(I) bromide solutions. The cluster is built up from an Al12 icosahedron with ten exohedrally bound (formally divalent) Al atoms (see structure). Such a homoatomic framework is unknown for molecular compounds. Even for the element boron this framework is only found as a section from the β-rhombohedral element modification.
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