The preparation of an unsaturated hydrido osmium cluster by hydrogenolysis of a cyclometallated phosphine; the X-ray structure of [Os3(CO)8(H)2(Ph2PCH2PPh2)]
Abstract
Treatment of [Os3(CO)8(H){Ph2PCH2P(Ph)C6H4}] with H2 affords a high yield of the unsaturated cluster [Os3(CO)8(H)2-(Ph2PCH2PPh2)] which has been characterised by X-ray crystallography.