Li Ai-Min, Wang Yi, Zavalij Peter Y, Chen Fu, Muñoz-Castro Alvaro, Eichhorn Bryan W
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2020 Sep 21;56(74):10859-10862. doi: 10.1039/d0cc03656k. Epub 2020 Aug 13.
Cluster anions [CpRuPb] (1) and [Cu@CpRuPb] (2) represent the first vertex-substituted zintl icosahedra and 1 is the first non-centered zintl icosahedron isolated in the condensed phase. Complexes 1 and 2 are both 12-vertex, 26-electron closo-clusters with C point symmetry and are static on the Pb NMR time scale in solution.