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December 2017 issue

Cover illustration: Soft scorpionate ligands have gained significant attention in synthetic inorganic chemistry over the last decades. The reaction of the soft scorpionate ligand potassium tris(6-tert-butyl-4-methylpyridazine-3(2H)-thione)borate (= KTnMe,tBu) with copper(I) chloride in the presence of triphenylphosphane retained the borate ligand and led to the compound {(hydrogen 2,2',2''-boranetriyl)tris[6-tert-butyl-4-methylpyridazine-3(2H)-thione]-3H,S,S'}(triphenylphosphane-
P)copper(I) chloroform disolvate; this represents an illustrative example where the scorpionate ligand binds in a
3-H,S,S fashion, in contrast to previously reported copper complexes with this ligand where boratranes (Cu-B bond) were found exclusively. The CuI atom is surrounded in a trigonal-planar arrangement by the triphenylphosphane ligand and two of the three S atoms of the scorpionate ligand with an additional 3-center-2-electron B-H
Cu interaction, with the H atom as the apex of a pyramid. See: Holler, Belaj & Mösch-Zanetti [IUCrData (2017). 2, x171772].
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