Hydride-encapsulated bimetallic clusters supported by 1,1-dithiolates

Chem Commun (Camb). 2020 Aug 21;56(65):9300-9303. doi: 10.1039/d0cc03848b. Epub 2020 Jul 15.

Abstract

Two mixed-metal hydride clusters, corresponding to x = 3 and 4, were structurally characterized from a set of atomically precise heptanuclear clusters, CuxAg7-x(H){S2P(OiPr)2}6 (x = 1-6). An interstitial hydride lying at the center of a tricapped tetrahedral cage was located and refined anisotropically by using X-ray data, and its presence acertained by multinuclear NMR spectroscopy and DFT calculations.