Novel reaction of an iridium carbonyl complex with xenon difluoride: the first metal fluoroacyl complex

Abstract

The cation [Ir(CO)3(PEt3)2]+ reacts with XeF2 in CH2Cl2 to give the novel species [Ir(CO)2F(COF)PEt3)2]+(1), isolated as BF4– and PF6– salts and characterised spectroscopically, crystallographically, and by partial elemental analysis.