Structure and Bonding in [Sb@In8 Sb12 ]3- and [Sb@In8 Sb12 ]5
Chao Liu1,2, Nikolay V Tkachenko3, Ivan A Popov4
1School of Materials Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Tianjin Key Lab for Rare Earth Materials and Applications, Centre for Rare earth and inorganic functional materials, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300350, China.
Abstract:
We report the characterization of the compound [K([2.2.2]crypt)]4 [In8 Sb13 ], which proves to contain a 1:1 mixture of [Sb@In8 Sb12 ]3- and [Sb@In8 Sb12 ]5- . The tri-anion displays perfect Th symmetry, the first completely inorganic molecule to do so, and contains eight equivalent In3+ centers in a cube. The gas-phase potential energy surface of the penta-anion has eight equivalent minima where the extra pair of electrons is localized on one In+ center, and these minima are linked by low-lying transition states where the electron pair is delocalized over two adjacent centers. The best fit to the electron density is obtained from a model where the structure of the 5- cluster lies close to the gas-phase transition state.
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