Interception of copper polysulfide clusters in the reaction of copper and sulfur in donor solvents: polysulfide complexes as the link between molecular and …

E Ramli, TB Rauchfuss, CL Stern

Index: Ramli, Emannuel; Rauchfuss, Thomas B.; Stern, Charlotte L. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1990 , vol. 112, # 10 p. 4043 - 4044

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Abstract

We report a simple and potentially powerful entry into metal sulfide chemistry which involves donor solvent-assisted synthesis from the elements. The new methodology has synthetic and mechanistic implications bearing on the relationship of metal polysulfidesl to solid-state materials. With an interest in layered, mixed valent copper chalcogenides, we sought to develop a low-temperature synthesis of CuS (covellite). 2 We prepared covellite by the ...