The crystal structure of tetrakis(methyldiphenylphosphine)iridium(I) tetrafluoroborate with cyclohexane of solvation: Ir[P(C"6H"5)"2CH"3]"4BF"4 - C"6H"1"2 - R. Clark, G.; W. Skelton, B.; Waters, T.N. (Elsevier)
The crystal structure of tetrakis(methyldiphenylphosphine)iridium(I) tetrafluoroborate with cyclohexane of solvation, [Ir(PPh"2Me)"4]BF"4.C"6H"1"2, has been determined from a three-dimensional X-ray analysis. The compound has been analysed in space group C"2/c of the monoclinic system. There are twelve molecules (i.e. 1.5 molecules per asymmetric unit) in a cell of dimensions a = 36.804(8), b = 22.93(2), c = 21.676(4) Å, β = 121.41(1)^o. Block-diagonal least-squares refinement has given a final R-factor of 0.060 for 7905 reflections having I 〉 3σ(I).The structure consists of two crystallographically distinct, but structurally similar molecules, one on a general position and one on a crystallographic two-fold axis. The phosphine ligands around the iridium atoms are in a very distorted square-planar arrangement. The reactions of the cation axe discussed in terms of this structure.
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