Reaction of [HIr
4(CO)
10(
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-PPh
2)],
1, with [Pt(dppe)(
2-PCBu
t)] yields four Ir
4Pt clusters[Ir
4Pt(dppe)(CO)
n{
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-PC(H)Bu
t}(
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-PPh
2)] (
n = 10,
2, and 9,
3), [HIr
4Pt(dppe)(
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-CO)(CO)
7(
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-PCH
2Bu
t)(
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-PPh
2)],
4, and [Ir
4Pt(dppe)(
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-CO)(CO)
8(
5-P)(
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-PPh
2)],
5. These compoundscontain fragments arising from hydrometalation and cleavage of the P-C triple bond of thephosphaalkyne. The structures of compounds
2 and
3, isolated as a mixture, were proposedon the basis of multinuclear NMR and mass spectrometry. To our knowledge these are thefirst examples of clusters containing a phosphido fragment {
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-PC(H)Bu
t} originating fromhydrometalation of the phosphaalkyne. Compounds
4 and
5 were characterized in solutionby multinuclear NMR spectroscopy, and their solid-state structures were determined byX-ray analyses. A remarkably low
1JP-Pt coupling constant in the Pt(dppe) fragment of theformer square-based pyramidal compound is discussed.