a Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
b Department of Chemistry, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 2AD, UK
Abstract:
Treatment of CpMoC13(MeCN)2 with SbCl5 in acetonitrile solution provides the solvated cationic series CpMoCl2(MeCN)3]+, CpMoCl(MeCN)4]2+ and CpMo(MeCN)6]3+ as hexachloroantimon(V)ate salts following sequential halide abstraction. Characterization follows from microanalytical and spectroscopic (IR, and 1H NMR) data and, in the case of CpMoCl(MeCN)4]SbCl6]2 · MeCN, by X-ray crystallographic studies. The structure is disordered but individual cations contain a six coordinated pseudo-octahedral metal geometry in which the cyclopentadienyl ligand (regarded as unidentate) and the chlorine atom occupy axial positions with an equatorial array of four acetonitrile ligands.