[zeshkani]

iam supposed to come out with a synthetic approche on how to make this compound

(Bu₄N)₂Re₂Cl₈     starting with Re, does anybody have any ideas maybe , i will be looking at lierature for the next few weeks, but if anybody has an ideas i would look into them
thx

[rkaminski]

I found some similar structures in CSD. Below are the references. I think that first two are the most interesting:

Inorg.Chem. (2000), 39, 5530
2(C24 H20 P +),Cl8 Re2 2-,2(C2 H3 N)

Inorg.Chim.Acta (1995), 229, 241
C4 H10 Cl7 Re2 S2 -,C16 H36 N +

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Acta Crystallogr.,Sect.C:Cryst.Struct.Commun. (1987), 43, 2437
2(C24 H20 P +),Cl8 Re2 2-,2(C H2 Cl2)

Zh.Strukt.Khim.(Russ.)(J.Struct.Chem.) (1963), 4, 55
2(C5 H6 N +),2(H +),Cl8 Re2 4-

Koord.Khim.(Russ.)(Coord.Chem.) (1978), 4, 1557
2(C3 H8 N O +),2(C3 H7 N O),Cl8 Re2 2-

Koord.Khim.(Russ.)(Coord.Chem.) (1978), 4, 1557
2(C2 H8 N +),Cl8 Re2 2-

Koord.Khim.(Russ.)(Coord.Chem.) (1992), 18, 1198
2(C4 H10 N O +),Cl8 Re2 2-

Inorg.Chim.Acta (1995), 234, 115
C6 H18 N2 2+,Cl8 Re2 2-

[zeshkani]

thx for all of those articles

[rkaminski]

No problem, most of these articles is available online.

[universityofiowac]

Yea I also have to find a way to synthesize this molecule starting with Re metal so I was hoping you could be more specific on where to find articles, what is CSD?. I am suppose to use scifinder.

[rkaminski]

CSD - Cambridge Structural Database, SciFinder, maybe is connected to it, but it's OK.

And where to find? My god. Or try, if you have an access, to download them from their website (for example Inorganic Chemistry is on http://pubs.acs.org site). Every Uni. has its own way to get access. You should know, not I. If this doesn't work go to library and find printed version of articles...