Abstract. New crystalline cobalt, nickel, zinc, and mercury halide adducts with polyethers as ligands have been isolated, characterized, and identified as [Co(μ-Cl)
IntroductionWe are interested in molecular compounds, especially oxygen donor adducts of metal halides, because they are useful as starting materials in the synthesis of low-dimensional polymeric compounds, i.e. clusters, and polymers or metal organic frameworks [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. Indeed, since more than two decades, metal aggregates are used in the low-cost synthesis of superconductors and other oxide materials based on the sol-gel technique or as volatile precursors in the MOCVD (Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition) process [3,11,13,[17][18][19][20][21]. One of the major problems of the synthesis of organo-metal(II) compounds, including the alkaline earth metal ions, is their possible tendency to form insoluble polymers [21][22][23][24], on one hand due to their low metal oxidation state M II , which only allows two anionic ligands, and on the other hand, their ionic radii, which demand a high coordination number. A parry to prevent a high degree of oligomerization is the use of neutral Lewis-coordinating ligands such as monodentate THF or multidentate polyether ligands, which avoid any further "metal-metal contacts" via bridging ligands, saturating the metal cation. However, the chemistry of such metal halide or pseudo-halide adducts with neutral Lewis-coordinating ligands (usually non-polar aprotic solvents) is still not systematically studied.Compounds that have so far been isolated in the class of molecular species are, for instance, the zero-dimensional com- Published in =HLWVFKULIW I U DQRUJDQLVFKH XQG DOOJHPHLQH &KHPLH ± which should be cited to refer to this work.