The title compound, [Cu 4 I 4 (C 12 H 27 P) 4 ], recovered from an attempt to prepare triisopropylsilylthiolato(tri-tert-butylphosphine)copper(I), is found to be tetrameric with a distorted heterocubane structure, one of the body diagonals of the cube being a crystallographic threefold rotation axis
Tetrakis(tert-butyl isocyanide)copper(I) chloride monohydrate
✍ Scribed by Imhof, Wolfgang ;Halbauer, Kathi ;Görls, Helmar
- Publisher
- International Union of Crystallography
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 282 KB
- Volume
- 61
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1600-5368
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✦ Synopsis
The title compound, [Cu(C 5 H 9 N) 4 ]ClÁH 2 O, was obtained from the reaction of copper(II) chloride hydrate with KCN in the presence of two equivalents of tert-butylisocyanide. The reaction proceeds via the reduction of copper and the formation of (CN) 2 . The compound shows a tetrahedrally surrounded Cu I centre, with the Cu I ion and the water O atom being situated on crystallographic twofold axes. The crystal structure contains infinite chains of alternating solvent molecules and Cl À anions, with additional weak C-HÁ Á ÁCl or C-HÁ Á ÁO interactions with the [Cu(CN t Bu) 4 ] cations.
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