[Co(η~5-P5){η~2-P2H(mes)}]~(2-): A Phospha-Organometallic Complex Obtained by the Transition-Metal-Mediated Activation of the Heptaphosphide Trianion

摘要

The chemical activation of white phosphorus by transition-metal complexes is a versatile albeit often unpredictable route to compounds containing homoatomic phosphorus ligands with nuclearities ranging between 1 and 29. In principle, many of the same transformations available for P4 should also be possible employing other closely related cage compounds, such as the bare Group 15 Zintl anion [P7]~(3-), although the products resulting from the activation of these anionic cages have little in common with those typically observed for white phosphorus.