metal-organic compounds
The sterically hindered title complex, [Fe3Te2(C36H40N2)(CO)7], was obtained by substitution of two carbonyl groups in the [Fe3(μ3-Te)2(CO)9] cluster by the bulky redox-active N,N′-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)acenaphthene-1,2-diimine (dpp-BIAN) ligand. The asymmetric unit contains two molecules of the same geometry. The C=N bond lengths in dpp-BIAN indicate a rather low level of electron transfer from the cluster core to the dpp-BIAN ligand.