CAGE EXPANSION OF [((CYNLI)(3)SB)(2)] - SYNTHESIS AND STRUCTURE OF THE TRIMETALLIC COMPLEX [((CYNLI)(3)SB)(2)(TBUOK)(3)-CENTER-DOT-X-C6H5CH3]

Cut in half, add the plane, and sandwich together. In effect these steps form the twenty‐membered cage Sb2N6Li6K3O3 from Sb2N6Li6 and KotBu (see below, the cyclohexyl groups on the N atoms and the tBu groups on the O atoms have been omitted for clarity). The driving force is probably provided by the formation of LiO bonds. The apices of both polyhedra are Sb atoms bound to the N atoms that are linked by the Li atoms. In the center of the right‐hand polyhedron is the K3O3 plane. (Figure Presented.) Copyright © 1995 by VCH Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Germany