An EXAFS study of the structure of Fe3(CO)12 in solution
Abstract
Analysis of the Fe K-edge extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) with multiple scattering calculations indicates that Fe3(CO)12 adopts primarily an all-terminal carbonyl co-ordination in light petroleum solution (mean Fe–Fe distance 2.65 Å), but that there is substantial population of bridging sites in a frozen CH2Cl2 solution (mean Fe–Fe distance 2.59 Å).