Reaction
s of rhenium chalcobromide
s C
s4[{Re
6(
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s/mgr.gif">
3-S)
8}Br
6]·2H
2O, C
s3[{Re
6(
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s/mgr.gif">
3-Se)
8}Br
6]·2H
2O,C
s3[{Re
6(
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s/mgr.gif">
3-Q)
7(
s/entitie
s/mgr.gif">
3-Br)}Br
6]·H
2O (Q = S, Se), and K
2[{Re
6(
s/entitie
s/mgr.gif">
3-S)
6(
s/entitie
s/mgr.gif">
3-Br)
2}Br
6] with molten tri
phenyl
pho
sphine(PPh
3) have re
sulted in a family of novel molecular hybrid inorganic-organic clu
ster com
pound
s. Sixoctahedral rhenium clu
ster com
plexe
s containing PPh
3 ligand
s with general formula [{Re
6(
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s/mgr.gif">
3-Q)
8-n(
s/entitie
s/mgr.gif">
3-Br)
n}(PPh
3)
4-nBr
n+2] (Q = S,
n = 0, 1, 2; Q = Se,
n = 0, 1) have been
synthe
sized and characterized byX-ray
single-cry
stal diffraction and elemental analy
se
s,
31P{
1H} NMR, lumine
scent mea
surement
s, andquantum-chemical calculation
s. It wa
s found that the number of terminal PPh
3 ligand
s in the com
plexe
s i
scontrolled by the com
po
sition and con
sequently by the charge of the clu
ster core {Re
6Q
8-nBr
n}
n+2. In cry
stal
structure
s of the com
plexe
s with mixed chalcogen/bromine ligand
s in the clu
ster core all
po
sition
s of acube [Q
8-nBr
n] are ordered and occu
pied exclu
sively by Q or Br atom
s. Lumine
scence characteri
stic
s ofthe com
pound
s trans-[{Re
6Q
8}(PPh
3)
4Br
2] and
fac-[{Re
6Se
7Br}(PPh
3)
3Br
3] (Q = S, Se) have beeninve
stigated in CH
2Cl
2 solution and the broad emi
ssion
spectra in the range of 600-850 nm were ob
served.