Synthesis, Structure, and Oxidation of Donor‐Stabilized Gallium(<scp>I</scp>) Iodide: Ga<sub>8</sub>I<sub>8</sub>·6PEt<sub>3</sub>

C. Doriat, M. Friesen, E. Baum, Achim Ecker, Hansgeorg Schnöckel

Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English · 1997 · 50 citations · 19 references

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Abstract

Merely the illusion of a GaGa bond is given between the doubly I-bridged atoms of the nearly planar eight-membered ring in Ga8I8 · 6 PEt3 (shown on the right). This finding is remarkable, since the corresponding AlI halides have four-membered Al rings. D = PEt3.

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