(AsPh4)4[CrCl4(μ-N2S2)]4 · 8 CH2Cl2; Synthese, IR-Spektrum und Kristallstruktur / (AsPh4)4[CrCl4(μ-N2S2)]4 · 8 CH2Cl2; Synthesis, IR Spectrum and Crystal Structure
Trithiazylchloride, (NSCl)3, reacts with metallic chromium, with chromium hexacarbonyl, with CrCl3·3 thf, as well as with chromium(VI) oxide to form mixtures, in which S4N3⊕ [CrCl4(N2S2)]⊖ can be identified as the major product. This compound reacts with tetraphenylarsonium chloride in dichloromethane to form the title compound, which we have characterized by IR spectroscopy and an X-ray crystal structural analysis. (AsPh4)4[CrCl4(N2S2)]4·8 CH2Cl2 crystallizes monoclinically in the space group C2/c with four formula units per unit cell and with the following lattice constants at -100 °C: a = 2146, b = 2033, c = 3137 pm; β = 96.0° (9918 independent observed reflexions, R = 0.064). The compound consists of AsPh4⊕ ions, tetrameric anions [CrCl4(N2S2)]44⊖ and included CH2Cl2 molecules. The chromium atoms of the anions occupy the corners of a nearly ideal square; they are connected via the N-atoms of planar N2S2-rings, which are oriented perpendicularly to the Cr4-plane. The chromium atoms complete their distorted octahedral coordination with four terminal chlorine atoms, the axial ones of which form short Cl···S-contacts of average 310 pm to the S-atoms of the N2S2-rings.