American Chemical Society, Inorganic Chemistry, 14(49), p. 6396-6398, 2010
DOI: 10.1021/ic100877u
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Although often seen in mass spectra, the otherwise elusive closo-Ge(10)(2-) Zintl ion has been finally structurally characterized as coordinated to manganese in [Ge(10)Mn(CO)(4)](3-) made by the reaction of nido-Ge(9)(4-) with Mn(2)(CO)(10) in ethylenediamine. The new cluster is a bicapped square antiprism, as expected for a closo-deltahedron of 10 atoms.