Ligand-exchange reactions involving octahedral W
6S
8 clusters and a family of pyridine-based ligands (isonicotinicacid, isonicotinamide, 4-hydroxypyridine, 4-aminopyridine, 4-pyridineacetamide) have been explored with the goalof preparing compounds that crystallize in hydrogen-bonded arrays. Two new compounds, W
6S
8(4-pyridineacetamide)
6·DMF·4-pyridineacetamide (
1) and W
6S
8(4-aminopyridine)
6·4DMF (
2), were isolated and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Both compounds crystallize in the
P2
1/
c space group with
a = 16.461(1),
b = 33.08(2),
c = 13.165(10) Å,
= 103.270(15)
for
1 and
a = 13.8988(5),
b = 13.2791(5),
c = 15.6293(6) Å,
=108.5410(10)
for
2. Each compound was further characterized by
1H NMR spectroscopy, elemental (CHN) analysis,and thermogravimetric analysis. Examination of the structures shows that
1 forms a three-dimensional hydrogen-bonded network in which each 4-pyridineacetamide ligand interacts with ligands on neighboring clusters or with thefree ligand of crystallization. This is the first hydrogen-bonded network formed from W
6S
8 clusters. In
2, the aminogroups act as hydrogen-bond donors toward DMF molecules of crystallization, but an extended array is not formed.In addition, the binding strengths of these pyridine-based ligands to the W
6S
8 cluster were studied through quantitative
1H NMR studies of ligand-exchange reactions. A qualitative relationship was found between ligand binding strengthsand Hammett substituent constants for this group of ligands.