A rare unsupported iridium(II) dimer, [IrCl2(CO)2]2

Sanjib K Patra; S M Wahidur Rahaman; Moumita Majumdar; Arup Sinha; Jitendra K Bera

doi:10.1039/b803632b

A rare unsupported iridium(II) dimer, [IrCl2(CO)2]2

Chem Commun (Camb). 2008 Jun 14:(22):2511-3. doi: 10.1039/b803632b. Epub 2008 May 2.

Authors

Sanjib K Patra¹, S M Wahidur Rahaman, Moumita Majumdar, Arup Sinha, Jitendra K Bera

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 208016, India.

PMID: 18506227
DOI: 10.1039/b803632b

Abstract

Oxidative additions of dichloromethanes to a diiridium(i) core, bridged by 2-ferrocenyl-1,8-naphthyridines (NP-Fc), provide an iridium(II) dimer, [IrCl2(CO)2(eta 1-NP-Fc)]2, featuring an unsupported Ir-Ir single bond (2.7121(8) A).