“…This distance is between 0.08 and 0.15 Á longer than the average distances reported for other clusters containing an arsenic-iron single bond such as As2Fe3-(CO)9 (2.348(2) Á),19 Fe2(CO)6(AsMe2)2 (2.319(10) Á),20 Fe2(CO)8AsFe2(CO)6Cl (2.36(1) Á),21 AsFe3(CO)9CH (2.370(10) A),22 (CO)5CrAsFe3(CO)9CH (2.354(6) A),22 Fe3(CO)9(StBu)(AsMe2) (2.378(6) A),23 and Fe2(CO)6-[tBuAs(NSN)AstBu] (2.3241(10) A). 24 In the spirocyclic cluster As2Fee(CO)2212 the Fe-As bonds between the arsenic and the Fe2(CO)e are similar to the others reported in the literature (2.340(14) A); however, the Fe-As bonds between the Fe2(CO)s fragments and the arsenic atoms are of length comparable (2.407(12) A) to those seen in [I]2-. This lengthening of the As-Fe bonds in [I]2is probably caused by steric crowding of the carbonyls on the iron fragments.…”