Mass-spectroscopy of polynuclear palladium carboxylate complexes as a key to new structures. Synthesis and X-Ray structure of Pd12(μ-CO)8(μ-NO2)8(μ-iPrCO2)8

Palladium NOx-containing polynuclear carboxylate complexes Pd4(μ-CO)2(μ-NO)(μ-iPrCO2)5 and Pd8(μ-CO)4(μ-NO2)4(μ-iPrCO2)8 were studied with MALDI-TOF mass-spectroscopic technique. The results confirm previous suggestion about Pd4 metal chains as building blocks for big palladium carbonyl carboxylate clusters. Also a new Pd3 bent metal chain observed in mass-spectra was demonstrated to serve a building block as well. Using the data the biggest palladium carboxylate cluster Pd12(μ-CO)8(μ-NO2)8(μ-iPrCO2)8 was synthesized and characterized by X-Ray analysis. Thus it was shown that mass-spectroscopic data for palladium carboxylates can be used for prediction of new structures of palladium clusters.