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Arene Complexes with a Half-Sandwich Structure: The 1 : 1 Complexes of Mesitylene with SbCl3, SbBr3, BiCl3 and BiBr3
Schmidbaur, Hubert,Wallis, Julian M.,Nowak, Reinhold,Huber, Brigitte,Mueller, Gerhard
, p. 1837 - 1844 (2007/10/02)
1,3,5-Trimethylbenzene forms stable 1 : 1 complexes with SbCl3, SbBr3, BiCl3, and BiBr3 of the stoichiometry C6H3Me3*EX3 (1-4).According to the results of X-ray structure analyses of compounds 2 and 3, one arene molecule is coordinated to each antimony or bismuth atom characterizing these adducts as half-sandwich species.To a good approximation the mesitylene molecules are centered over the metal atoms, but deviations from strict η6-hapticity are larger for antimony than for bismuth. - Despite some obvious analogies in many features of the structures, 2 and 3 are not isostructural.Differences appear with regard to the halogen bridging between the EX3 moieties giving rise to the formation of two-dimensional networks (EX3)n covered above and below by mesitylene molecules.The structural and sequential principles of the layers differ in a characteristic way for 2 and 3.