Jie Zhang, Rico E. Del Sesto, Douglas C. Gordon, Joel S. Miller, Jie Zhang, Louise M. Liable-Sands, Arnold L. Rheingold and Brian M. Burkhart
The reaction of MI2·xMe3CN (M = Mn, Fe) and TCNE (tetracyanoethylene) leads to unprecedented [C4(CN)8]2– µ4-metal complexes which have been crystallographically characterized and are precursors to M(TCNE)x·yS magnets.