Delton communications. Synthesis and characterization of a palladium–osmium mixed-metal cluster; crystal structure of [Os6Pd(CO)18(bipy)]·CHCl3(bipy = 2,2′-bipyridine)
Abstract
The heterometallic cluster [Os6Pd(CO)18(bipy)](bipy = 2,2′-bipyridine) has been isolated in moderate yield from the reaction of [Os3(CO)10(MeCN)2] and [Pd(bipy)(CO2Me)2], and shown by a single-crystal X-ray structure analysis to contain a monocapped octahedral metal core with the palladium occupying one vertex of the octahedron.