Acta Crystallographica Section E

Structure Reports Online

Volume 60, Part 10 (October 2004)

metal-organic compounds

lh6276 scheme

Acta Cryst. (2004). E60, m1539-m1541 [ doi:10.1107/S1600536804023104 ]

Bis(tetraphenylphosphonium) bis(tetraselenomolybdato)palladate(II)

Z. J. Shiffler, S. M. Baldwin, J. M. Keane, B. L. Belz, M. L. Barr, E. R. Slavin III, M. E. Kastner and C. H. Mahler

Abstract: In the title compound, (C₂₄H₂₀P)₂[Pd(MoSe₄)₂], the [Pd(MoSe₄)₂]^2- anion has the Pd^II atom on a crystallographic inversion center with distorted square-planar geometry, coordinated by two nearly tetrahedral bidentate MoSe₄^2- ligands. It is the first complex of palladium and tetraselenomolybdate to be structurally characterized.