Bridge-to-vertex oxidative slipping in an auraborane: synthesis and characterisation of [(B10H12)Au(B10H13)]2? and [(B10H12)Au(B10H12)]?
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 15,p. 1174-1176
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39870001174
Abstract
The new auraboranes [(B10H12)Au(B10H13)]2– and [(B10H12)Au(B10H12)]– have been synthesised by the addition of B10H14 to a solution of R3PAuMe (R = cyclo-C6H11 or C6H4Me-2), a crystallographic study showing that the geometry of the {AuB10H13} fragment of the former is that of an arachno fragment of a 13-vertex decosahedron; a mechanism is proposed which involves formal oxidative slipping of a gold atom from a B–Au–B bridge to a polyhedral vertex.Keywords
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