Virginia Tech. Department of ChemistryMerola, Joseph S.Slebodnick, CarlaHouser, Christopher2016-09-222016-09-222015-05-01Merola, J. S., Slebodnick, C., & Houser, C. (2015). Crystal structure of di-μ-chlorido-bis­­[di­chlorido­bis­­(methanol-κO)iridium(III)] dihydrate: a surprisingly simple chlorido­iridium(III) dinuclear complex with methanol ligand. Acta Crystallographica Section E, 71(5), 528-530. doi:doi:10.1107/S205698901500667http://hdl.handle.net/10919/73028The reaction between IrCl3·xH2O in methanol led to the formation of small amounts of the title compound, [Ir2Cl6(CH3OH)4]·2H2O, which consists of two IrCl4O2 octa-hedra sharing an edge via chloride bridges. The mol-ecule lies across an inversion center. Each octa-hedron can be envisioned as being comprised of four chloride ligands in the equatorial plane with methanol ligands in the axial positions. A lattice water mol-ecule is strongly hydrogen-bonded to the coordinating methanol ligands and weak inter-actions with coordinating chloride ligands lead to the formation of a three-dimensional network. This is a surprising structure given that, while many reactions of iridium chloride hydrate are carried out in alcoholic solvents, especially methanol and ethanol, this is the first structure of a chloridoiridium compound with only methanol ligands.528 - 530 page(s)application/pdfenCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalchlorido bridgecrystal structurehydrogen bondingiridiummethanol ligandArticle - Refereedhttps://doi.org/10.1107/S205698901500667271Pt 55http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S20569890150066722056-9890