%0 Journal Article %1 Hosmane.1998 %A Hosmane, Narayan S. %A Demissie, Temesgen %A Zhang, Hongming %A Maguire, John A. %A Lipscomb, William N. %A Baumann, Frank %A Kaim, Wolfgang. %D 1998 %J Organometallics %K carborane cesium complex complex;mol prepn structure structure;crystal %N 3 %P 293--295 %R 10.1021/OM970938 %T Synthesis and Crystal Structure of the First Polymeric Cesium Compound of a Carborane Ligand System %V 17 %X The room-temp. reaction between a THF soln. of the C-(SiMe3)-substituted 2,4,7,9-tetracarba-nido-dodecaborane(12), (SiMe3)4C4B8H8 (1), and excess Cs metal, in the absence of either naphthalene or arom. solvents, produced a paramagnetic intermediate that reacted further with Cs to give the EPR-silent species exo-Cs(TMEDA)-1-Cs-2,4,7,9-(SiMe3)4-2,4,7,9-C4B8H8n (2). Single-crystal x-ray anal. showed 2 to be a polymeric structure in which each C4B8 carborane fragment serves as a ligand to two Cs atoms and is bonded to one through an open six-membered face and to the other via upper- and lower-belt M-H-E (E = B, C) interactions. This is the 1st example of a Cs compd. in which the metal sequentially interacts with the carborane cages to form metal-carborane repeating units. on SciFinder(R)

@article{Hosmane.1998, abstract = {The room-temp. reaction between a THF soln. of the C-(SiMe3)-substituted 2,4,7,9-tetracarba-nido-dodecaborane(12), (SiMe3)4C4B8H8 (1), and excess Cs metal, in the absence of either naphthalene or arom. solvents, produced a paramagnetic intermediate that reacted further with Cs to give the EPR-silent species [exo-Cs(TMEDA)-1-Cs-2,4,7,9-(SiMe3)4-2,4,7,9-C4B8H8]n (2). Single-crystal x-ray anal. showed 2 to be a polymeric structure in which each C4B8 carborane fragment serves as a ligand to two Cs atoms and is bonded to one through an open six-membered face and to the other via upper- and lower-belt M-H-E (E = B, C) interactions. This is the 1st example of a Cs compd. in which the metal sequentially interacts with the carborane cages to form metal-carborane repeating units. [on SciFinder(R)]}, added-at = {2022-06-15T11:26:56.000+0200}, author = {Hosmane, Narayan S. and Demissie, Temesgen and Zhang, Hongming and Maguire, John A. and Lipscomb, William N. and Baumann, Frank and Kaim, Wolfgang.}, biburl = {https://puma.ub.uni-stuttgart.de/bibtex/2c7058dc5dcb2796a84d2692568ee3447/huebleriac}, doi = {10.1021/OM970938}, interhash = {776e10218c9a75ed7cee2d5fb93bdb06}, intrahash = {c7058dc5dcb2796a84d2692568ee3447}, issn = {0276-7333}, journal = {Organometallics}, keywords = {carborane cesium complex complex;mol prepn structure structure;crystal}, number = 3, pages = {293--295}, timestamp = {2022-06-15T09:26:56.000+0200}, title = {Synthesis and Crystal Structure of the First Polymeric Cesium Compound of a Carborane Ligand System}, volume = 17, year = 1998 }