Unusual luminescent octanuclear stellate platinacycle self-assembled by Pt-Ag bonds.
An unprecedented macrocyclic luminescent octanuclear cluster cyclo-[{Pt(C6Cl5)2(mu-OH)(mu-Ag)}4] (Pt-Ag) 2 was self-assembled by the formation of Pt(II)-Ag(I) bonds; the optical properties of this complex were also investigated.
Tri-[Pt2Tl]3- and polynuclear chain [Pt−Tl]∞- Complexes based on nonbridged PtII−TlI bonds: Solid state and frozen solution photophysical properties
Treatment of (NBu4)2[PtR4] (R = C6F5) with 1 or 0.5 equiv of TlNO3 in EtOH/H2O produces colorless crystals of trinuclear complex (NBu4)3[Tl{PtR4}2], 1, in which the Tl+ center is complexed by two [PtR4]2- fragments (Pt−Tl = 2.9777(4) and 3.0434(4) A). The expected mixed complex with a Pt/Tl composition of 1:1, 2, is generated as an orange microcrystalline solid by treating [PtR4]2- with a large excess of TlNO3 (∼8 equiv). Crystallographic analysis of 2 reveals the formation of a novel one-dimensional (1D) heterometallic linear chain (NBu4)∞[Tl{PtR4}]∞, 2, formed by alternating a [PtR4]2- fragment and a Tl+ center with a uniform Pt−Tl bond separation along the chain of 3.0321(2) A. Surprisingly, treatment of (NBu4)2[PtR4] with 1 equiv of TlPF6 in EtOH yields pale greenish-yellow needles of an unusual adduct, 2·{(NBu4)(PF6)}∞ (3), which was found to form a similar extended linear chain, {TlPtR4}∞, constructed by two alternating Pt−Tl separations, a shorter (3.1028(6) A) one and a longer (3.2306(6) A) one. T...
List of the described Coleoptera ofTasmania.
The Coleoptera of Tasmania have never been considered as 
a whole since the time of Erichson, and no list or 
catalogue of the species has ever been compiled. About 
10,000 species have now been recorded from Australia and 
Tasmania, of which scarcely 400 have been described from 
Tasmania. A very imperfect knowledge of what species 
are confined to the island exists, as species supposed only 
to occur there, are constantly being found in Victoria and 
New South Wales, and even sometimes in Western Australia 
and Queensland; on the other hand, Tasmanian 
collectors frequently obtain mainland species which have 
never been recorded from Tasmania. 
I have considered it advisable, therefore, to prepare a 
list of the species hitherto recorded from Tasmania, adding 
to the list such species as I have seen in Tasmanian collections, 
or have myself taken in Tasmania. In this list, 
the genera and families are placed as far as possible in the 
order in which they appear in Masters' "Catalogue of the 
Described Coleoptera of Australia;" the species are placed 
alphabetically. All known synonyms have been omitted.