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Pentagonal Bismuth Antiprisms with Endohedral Palladium or Platinum Atoms by Low-Temperature Syntheses

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Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem., 643 (1): 69--80 (January 2017)
DOI: 10.1002/zaac.201600354

Abstract

We present the syntheses, crystal structures, and properties of five metal-rich salts containing the Bi104+ pentagonal antiprism with an endohedral palladium or, for the first time, platinum atom. Tetragonal Pt@Bi10(AlBr4)4 P42/n at 296(1) K; P4 at 150(2) K was obtained by reacting platinum, bismuth, and bismuth tribromide in BMImBr·4.1AlBr3 at 140 °C (BMIm = 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium). Monoclinic Pt@Bi10(AlBr4)2(Al2Br7)2 P21/n occurs as by-product. The two corresponding palladium compounds result from the dissolution of Bi16PdCl22 in BMImBr·4.1AlBr3. Pd@Bi10(AlBr4)4 P42/n adopts a disordered structure homeotypic to its platinum analog. Pd@Bi10(AlBr4)2(Al2Br7)2 P21/n is isostructural to Pt@Bi10(AlBr4)2(Al2Br7)2. In all structures, the M@Bi104+ cations are well separated by the bromido-aluminate anions with inter-cluster Bi···Bi distances longer than 520 pm. This is not the case in Pd@Bi10Bi2Sn6Cl22, which crystallized from a tin-containing melt of the metals and BiCl3. In its monoclinic structure P21/c, the cluster cations are arranged in chains along 001 with an inter-cluster distance of only 357 pm. Despite further structural evidence, DFT-based quantum chemical analysis gave no hint on inter-cluster bonding. According to the calculated band structure as well as resistivity and magnetic susceptibility measurements, the black compound is a diamagnetic semiconductor.

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