Crystal and molecular structure of an unusual unsymmetrical isomer of 1,2-Os3(CO)10{P(C6H5)[(η-C5H4)Fe(η-C5H5)]2}2

Abstract

The reaction of Os3(CO)10(MeCN)2 with PFc2Ph (Fc = (η-C5H4)Fe(η-C5H5)) affords the unsymmetrical isomer of 1,2-Os3(CO)10(PFc2Ph)2, 2. Crystals of 2 are monoclinic, a = 27.846(4), b = 11.253(4), c = 38.520(3) Å, β = 107.813(9)°, Z = 8, space group C2/c. The structure was solved by heavy atom methods, and was refined by full-matrix least-squares procedures to R = 0.030 and Rw = 0.027 for 5073 reflections with I ≥ 3σ(I).