The first polyoxorhenate(VII) compound, pyrazolium polyoxorhenate
((C4N2H5)2Re4O15), and two new rhenium(VII) and technetium(VII) salts
have been synthesized and studied. The structure of Tc2O7 has been reinvestigated. The [Re4O15]2– polyoxoanion contains four Re(VII) atoms: one
with an octahedral environment and three with a tetrahedral environment.
Polyoxorhenate is formed in the presence of a buffering agent, pyrazole,
the latter maintaining pH = 2.5 during the formation of crystals.
The [Re4O15]2– polyoxoanion
has novel stoichiometry and the cis-conformation,
likely due to the stabilizing intramolecular nonvalence interactions.
For the first time, intramolecular interactions of the Re···O,
Re···μ-O, and O···O are described
(previously known were only intermolecular ones). In all of the compounds,
intermolecular Re···O interactions are observed, which,
however, in other compounds, do not lead to the formation of polyoxometalates.
The Hirshfeld surface analysis showed that the main contribution to
intermolecular interactions is made by the O···H/H···O
contacts, van der Waals interactions of the H···H for
cations, and the O···O for anions. DFT calculations
of the [Re4O15]2– geometry,
compared with the crystallographic data, revealed a deviation in the
angles. Mass spectroscopy of the red polyoxometalate [Tc20O68]4– was carried out for the first
time. Comparison of the results of MALDI and LI for the first known
polyoxometalates of the manganese subgroup made it possible to find
general patterns of oligomerization for rhenium and technetium compounds.
The ESI-MS and LI-MS methods applied to solution and crystals Re compounds
made it possible to prove rhenium being able to form not only [Re4O15]2– but also heavier polyoxoanions.