The reaction of CoCl
2, RuCl
3,Na
2(mp), and PBu
n3(H
2mp = 2-mercaptophenol,PBu
n3 =tri-
n-butylphosphine)in ethanol in the molar ratio of 0.75:0.25:1:1 gave the comple
xCo
6Ru
2(mp)
10(PBu
n3)
6.The heterooctanuclearcomple
x consists of si
x cobalt and two ruthenium ions chelated to aswell as bridged by the 2-mercaptophenolligands in a near-dimeric fashion with two
2-OR groupsbridging the twoCo
3Ru(mp)
5(PBu
n3)
3fragments withouta crystallographic center of symmetry. Each fragment is formed bybinding two of theCo(mp)
2(PBu
n3)structuralunits and one Co(mp) species to a central Ru(III) ion throughthe S donors of the five mp ligands, while the si
xthcoordination site of the octahedral Ru environment is completed by aphosphine ligand in the a
xial position. TheCo
6Ru
2 moiety e
xhibits a zigzag assemblyconstructed by the
2-O and
2-S bridges ofthe bidentate2-mercaptophenol ligands in a highly asymmetric fashion. The Coatoms are square pyramidally coordinatedwith apices that are occupied by the phosphine ligands or an o
xygenatom from a mp
2- ligand.Variable-temperaturemagnetic susceptibilities that were measured in the temperature range300-1.6 K reveal that the spin clustere
xhibits weak antiferromagnetic e
xchange interactions. Aquantitative interpretation of the magnetic data wascarried out by the irreducible tensor operator approach. Crystaldata of the comple
x are as follows: triclinicspace group
P![](/images/entities/onemacr.gif)
,
a = 14.931(3) Å,
b = 23.195(5) Å,
c = 24.259(5) Å,
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= 74.91(3)
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,
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= 74.83(3)
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,
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=78.80(3)
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, and
Z = 2.