Chemistry Letters, Vol.31, No.9, 920-921, 2002
Rational synthesis and crystal structures of heterometallic-heterochalcogenido cubane-type clusters [(CP*M)(2)(MOOCl2){MOCl2(dmf)}(mu(3)-S)(2)(mu(3)-Se)(2]) (M = Rh, Ir)
Reactions of [{MoO(dmf)(3)}(2)(mu(2)-S)(2)]I-2 with [(CP*MCl)(2)(mu(2)-SeH)(2)] (M = Rh, Ir) in the presence of NMe4Cl gave mixed-metal sulfido-selenido clusters [(CP*M)(2)(MoOCl2)[MoCl2(dmf)](mu(3)-S)(2)(mu(3)-Se)(2)], whose cubane-type core structures have been demonstrated in detail by Xray crystallography.