Abstract
The salts (K-2,2,2-crypt)2Sn4·en (en = ethyl-enediamine) and (Na-2,2,2-crypt)2Ge4 have been synthesized and shown by single crystal X-ray diffraction to contain the 18-electron, tetrahedral cluster anions Sn4 2– and Ge4 2–.

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