The synthesis and X-ray structure of the heterometallic tetranuclear butterfly cluster complex, [Fe2Rh2(CO)8{µ-Ph2PC(
CH2)PPh2}2]
Abstract
Treatment of the heterometallic complex [(OC)4Fe{µ-Ph2PC(CH2)PPh2}RhCl(CO)] with Me3NO affords the tetranuclear cluster [Fe2Rh2(CO)8{µ-Ph2PC(
CH2) PPh2}2] which has been characterised by X-ray crystallography as having a butterfly structure with wing-tip Rh atoms.