TY - GEN A1 - Groh, Matthias F. A1 - Breternitz, Joachim A1 - Ahmed, Ejaz A1 - Isaeva, Anna A1 - Efimova, Anastasia A1 - Schmidt, Peer A1 - Ruck, Michael T1 - Ionothermal Synthesis, Structure, and Bonding of the Catena-Heteropolycation 1∞[Sb2Se2]+ T2 - Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie N2 - The reaction of antimony and selenium in the Lewis-acidic ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methyl-imidazolium tetrachloridoaluminate, [BMIm]Cl·4.7AlCl3, yielded dark-red crystals of [Sb2Se2]AlCl4. The formation starts above 160 °C; at about 190 °C, irreversible decomposition takes place. The compound crystallizes in the triclinic space group Pequation image with a = 919.39(2) pm, b = 1137.92(3) pm, c = 1152.30(3) pm, α = 68.047(1)°, β = 78.115(1)°, γ = 72.530(1)°, and Z = 4. The structure is similar to that of [Sb2Te2]AlCl4 but has only half the number of crystallographically independent atoms. Polycationic chains 1∞[Sb2Se2]+ form a pseudo-hexagonal arrangement along [01-1], which is interlaced by tetrahedral AlCl4– groups. The catena-heteropolycation 1∞[Sb2Se2]+ is a sequence of three different four-membered [Sb2Se2] rings. The chemical bonding scheme, established from the topological analysis of the real-space bonding indicator ELI-D, includes significantly polar covalent bonding in four-member rings within the polycation. The rings are connected into an infinite chain by homonuclear non-polar Sb–Sb bonds and highly polar Sb–Se bonds. Half of the selenium atoms are three-bonded. KW - Chain structures KW - Antimony KW - Heteropolycations KW - Main-group elements KW - Selenium Y1 - 2015 UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/zaac.201400543/abstract U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/zaac.201400543 SN - 1521-3749 VL - 641 IS - 2 SP - 388 EP - 393 ER -