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O<br />

Cl<br />

Nb<br />

Cl<br />

OMe<br />

OMe<br />

Chapter 4<br />

3a 3b<br />

Figure 4.1: Graphical representation <strong>of</strong> the <strong>niobium</strong>(V) crystal structures obtained: 1)<br />

[NbCl(acac-κ 2 -O,O’)(OMe)3], 2) [Nb(acac-κ 2 -O,O’)(OEt)2(µ 2 -O)]4, 3a) [NbCl2(phacac-κ 2 -<br />

O,O’)(OMe)2] <strong>and</strong> 3b) [NbCl(phacac-κ 2 -O,O’)(OMe)3]. (phacac = 1-phenyl-1,3-butane-<br />

4.2 Experimental<br />

1 2<br />

dionate)<br />

The X-ray intensity data was collected on a Bruker X8 ApexII 4K Kappa CCD area<br />

detector diffractometer, equipped with a graphite monochromator <strong>and</strong> MoKα fine-<br />

focus sealed tube (λ = 0.71073 Å, T = 100(2) K) operated at 2.0 kW (50 kV, 40 mA).<br />

The initial unit cell determinations <strong>and</strong> data collections were done by the SMART 1<br />

s<strong>of</strong>tware package. The collected frames were integrated using a narrow-frame<br />

integration algorithm <strong>and</strong> reduced with the Bruker SAINT-Plus <strong>and</strong> XPREP s<strong>of</strong>tware<br />

1 Bruker SMART-NT Version 5.050. Bruker AXS Inc. Area-Detector S<strong>of</strong>tware Package; Madison, WI, USA, 1998.<br />

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