Synthesis and structure of the novel octanuclear lithium aryloxide cluster [(hmqLi)8(THF)4](hmq−= 2-hydroxy-4-methylquinoline monoanion): formation of a rare four-rung intercepted Li–O ladder

Stephen T. Liddle; William Clegg

doi:10.1039/B206894J

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Synthesis and structure of the novel octanuclear lithium aryloxide cluster [(hmqLi)₈(THF)₄] (hmq⁻ = 2-hydroxy-4-methylquinoline monoanion): formation of a rare four-rung intercepted Li–O ladder

Stephen T. Liddle^a and William Clegg*^a

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^a Department of Chemistry, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
E-mail: w.clegg@ncl.ac.uk

Abstract

The title complex, readily prepared by the facile deprotonation of 2-hydroxy-4-methylquinoline by n-butyllithium in ethereal solvent, crystallises as a novel octanuclear cluster constructed around a rare intercepted four-rung Li–O ladder.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/B206894J
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 15 Jul 2002
Accepted: 19 Sep 2002
First published: 30 Sep 2002

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J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 2002, 3923-3924

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Synthesis and structure of the novel octanuclear lithium aryloxide cluster [(hmqLi)₈(THF)₄] (hmq⁻ = 2-hydroxy-4-methylquinoline monoanion): formation of a rare four-rung intercepted Li–O ladder

S. T. Liddle and W. Clegg, J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 2002, 3923 DOI: 10.1039/B206894J

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