A mixed-metal trimetallic metallocarborane, [{(CO)3Fe}2(η5-C5H5) CoMe2C2B4H4]
Abstract
The reaction of [1,2,3-(η5-C5H5) CoMe2C2B4H4] with [Fe(CO)5] produced [{(CO)3Fe}2(η5-C5H5) CoMe2C2-B4H4], which is a nine-vertex polyhedral cage system containing the highest ratio of metal to nonmetal cage atoms among known metallocarboranes and the first example of a mixed-metal trimetallocarborane.