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Bridging coordination of acenaphthylene to a Pd3 chain or a Pd4 sheet cluster
Koji Yamamoto1, Tsuyoshi Sugawa1, Mio Kondo2
1Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8552, Japan. mura@apc.titech.ac.jp.
Abstract:
The coordination behaviour of multinuclear clusters to fused arene ligands is of continuous interest due to its relevance to metal catalysts supported by graphitic carbon materials. Herein, we report the bridging coordination behaviour of acenaphthylene to a Pd3 or a Pd4 cluster. A bis-acenaphthylene Pd3 chain cluster and an acenaphthylene-COT Pd4 sheet cluster were isolated, and the μ3-π-coordination mode or the μ4-oxidative π-addition mode of the acenaphthylene ligand in each cluster was elucidated by X-ray structure analysis.
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