Paramagnetic Rhenium Iodide Cluster with N-Heterocyclic Carbene.
Pavel A PetrovTaisiya S SukhikhVladimir A NadolinnyMaxim A MikhaylovAlexander N LavrovAlexey A DmitrievNina P GritsanMaxim N SokolovPublished in: Inorganic chemistry (2021)
triangulo-Trirhenium nonaiodide Re3I9 reacts with 1,3-bis(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene (IMes) to produce the novel 13-electron paramagnetic cluster Re3I8(IMes)2, which was characterized by means of X-ray diffraction analysis, ESR spectroscopy, magnetometry, and quantum chemistry.