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To establish an improved synthetic route for isolating bismuth polycation salts from benzene solution and determine their precise single-crystal structures.

January 26, 2005European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry

Improvements of and Insights into the Isolation of Bismuth Polycations from Benzene Solution – Single‐Crystal Structure Determinations of Bi8GaCl42 and Bi5GaCl43

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ALAndreas Fischer Martin LindsjöKTH Royal Institute of Technology LKLars KlooKTH Royal Institute of Technology

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Synthetic study reports the isolation and structures of Bi8[GaCl4]2 and Bi5[GaCl4]3 from benzene, revealing distinct square-antiprismatic and trigonal-bipyramidal bismuth clusters.

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To establish an improved synthetic route for isolating bismuth polycation salts from benzene solution and determine their precise single-crystal structures.
Synthesized crystalline salts from a solution of BiCl3 and GaCl3 in benzene using elemental gallium metal as the reducing agent.
Determined crystal structures and molecular geometry using single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis.
Bi8[GaCl4]2 crystallizes in the hexagonal space group P63 (a = 17.760(2) Å, c = 12.979(3) Å) and contains an eight-coordinate Bi82+ polycation in an essentially ideal square-antiprismatic geometry.
Bi5[GaCl4]3 crystallizes in the trigonal space group R3c (a = 11.814(2) Å, c = 29.974(3) Å) and contains a Bi53+ polycation with a trigonal-bipyramidal geometry slightly distorted from ideal D3h symmetry.

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Lindsjö et al. (2005) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aa4e9c5c357b1fb1b2833bc https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.200400466

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Synthetic study reports the isolation and structures of Bi8[GaCl4]2 and Bi5[GaCl4]3 from benzene, revealing distinct square-antiprismatic and trigonal-bipyramidal bismuth clusters.

Improvements of and Insights into the Isolation of Bismuth Polycations from Benzene Solution – Single‐Crystal Structure Determinations of Bi8GaCl42 and Bi5GaCl43

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