Synthesis and Crystal Structure of Tetrakis（4—methylpyridine）bis（μ4—pentathio）—tetracopper（Ⅰ）（4—methylpyridine）solvate

1 INTRODUCTION An interesting aspect in the studies of copper-sulfur coordination chemistry is the apparent tendency of Cu(Ⅰ) ions to form various clusters with sulfur ligands. The coordination chemistry of Cu(Ⅰ) has been studied extensively owing to the importance of Cu(Ⅰ) in biological systems and copper-sulfur bonds detected in some metallopro- teins[1]. More recently, remarkably rich photoluminescence properties have been found in the tetranuclear complexes[2～5] and the cage-ty…