Abstract
A new quaternary niobium cluster chloride, K2Mn[Nb6Cl18], has been synthesized in a sealed quartz tube from stoichiometric amounts of NbCl5, niobium metal, KCl, and MnCl2at 720°C. The structure, as determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, is rhombohedral, space groupR3 (No. 148) withZ= 3 and has lattice parametersa= 914.01 (4) pm,c= 2522.9 (2) pm (hexagonal setting). The structure refinement based onF2yielded wR2 = 0.040. (For comparison, a refinement based onFvalues yieldedR1 = 0.016). The structure contains isolated [Nb6Cl18]4−clusters, separated by K+and Mn2+cations, being located in an anticubeoctahedral and octahedral chloride coordination environment, respectively.
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