Th
ree high-nuclea
rity osmium ca
rbonyl cluste
r complexes, [Os
7(
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5-
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2-ampy)(
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2(CO)
17] (
1), [Os
8(
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3-H)(
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5-
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2-ampy)(
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19] (
2), and [Os
9O(
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4-
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2-ampy)
2(CO)
18] (
3) (H
2ampy = 2-amino-6-methylpy
ridine), have been p
repa
red by heating [Os
3(CO)
12] with 0.5 equiv of H
2ampy in decane at
reflux tempe
ratu
re. The t
rinuclea
r complex [Os
3(
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2-Hampy)(CO)
9] is an inte
rmediate in this
reaction. The metallic skeletons of
1 and
2 can be desc
ribed as mono- (
1) o
r bi-face-capped (
2), basal-edge-b
ridged, squa
re py
ramids, whe
reas that of compound
3 consists of a pentagonal bipy
ramid withtwo equato
rial edges spanned by metal atoms. In the th
ree cluste
rs, the ampy ligands a
re attached toedge-b
ridging Ru atoms th
rough thei
r py
ridine N atoms, while they also cap metallic squa
res (in
1 and
2) o
r t
riangles (in
3) th
rough thei
r imido N atom. An additional featu
re of compound
3 is that it containsa te
rminal oxo ligand, unp
recedented in osmium ca
rbonyl cluste
r chemist
ry.