C54H44Ag4N4P4S4,monoclinic, P12 1 /n1(no. 14), a =12.4531(4) Å, b =16.7286(5) Å, c =13.6948(4) Å, b =98.722(2)°, V =2820.0 Å 3 , Z =2,Rgt(F) =0.031, wRref(F 2 ) =0.062, T =273 K.
Source of materialSynthesis of the titlecompound was carried out by stirring the solution of AgSCN (silver thiocyanate)(0.0489 g, 0.3 mmol), bis(diphenylphosphino)methane (dppm; 0.0577g, 0.15 mmol), and quinoline (0.0194 g, 0.15 mmol) in N,N-dimethylformamide (10 ml) for 24 hours at room temperature.After filtration, thefiltrate was allowed to stand at room temperature. Slowevaporation of the colorless solventyielded white crystals.
Discussion. The diphosphine groups (e.g. of dppm) adopt monodentate,chelating or edge-bridging coordination modes on the cluster surface [6]. In polynuclear complexes, the dppm ligandhas agreater tendency to act either as amonodentate or as abridging bidentate ligand than as ac helating ligand because of the four-membered ring being strained [6]. The crystal structure determination of the title compound revealed atetranuclear silver(I) cluster. Because of all the thiocyanato ligands are almost linear, each two thiocyanates and two silver atoms form adistortedhexagon. Each silver atom is coordinated by one nitrogenatom of the thiocyanate,one sulfur atom of the other thiocyanate and the phosphorusa tom of the dppm ligand. Ag(1,1A,2,2A)a toms form at etragon whose edgesa re bridged by two dppmligands and two m-thiocyanates. The edges of the tetragonare not equivalent and the distance of the two silver atoms in different hexagons (3.0635(3) Å)is0.14 Å longer than the sum of the covalentr adii (2.88 Å) [ 7], which indicates that there is aweak Ag···Ag interaction.The bond length of S1-Ag1 (2.5683(7) Å)i ss lightly shorter than that of S2-Ag2 (2.6054(6) Å). The bond lengths of N1-Ag2 and N2-Ag1 are 2.231(2) Å and 2.214(2) Å,r espectively. The bond lengths of P1-Ag1and P2-Ag2are 2.3891(6) Å and 2.4087(6) Å,respectively, the average Ag-P bondl ength of 2.399 Å is 0.12 Å shorter than that reportedfor [Ag4(m-dppm)4(m4-i-mnt)2][5]. The angles of N-Ag-P are 127.38(6)°and 139.00(5)°,while the angles of P-Ag-S are 130.36(2)°and 110.93(2)°.H owever, the range of the angles of N-Ag-S is very small, beingb etween 102.24(6)°and 102.35(5)°.