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…

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

The red chunk title compound [Cu4(S5)2(4-Mepy) 4]?4-Mepy) was obtained by the reaction of copper powder with sulfur powder, potassium sulfide and excess 4-methylpyridine at ambient temperature and normal atmosphere. Its structure was determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis, and the crystal data for the compound: triclinic, P , a = 9.7442(2), b = 14.124(3), c = 15.410 (3) ? ?= 98.96(3), ?= 93.82(3), ?= 94.08(3)? V = 2083.7(7) ?3, Z = 2, Dc = 1.66 g/cm3, (MoK? = 1.31mm-1, F(000) = 1052,C30H35N5S10Cu4,Mr = 1040.45. The structure was refined to R = 0.0393 and wR = 0.1158 for 9281 independent reflections. The title crystal consists of a neutral complex molecule [Cu4(S5)2(4-CH3C5H4N)4] and a 4-methylpyridine solvent molecule. In the neutral complex, the four Cu atoms are in a distorted tetrahedral arrangement and the nonbonding Cu…Cu distances in the copper tetrahedron range from 3.1414 to 3.8488 , and the CuS bond lengths vary from 2.2839 to 2.3670 ?