[N,N′-Bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)acenaphthene-1,2-diimine-1κ2N,N′]heptacarbonyl-1κC,2κ3C,3κ3C-di-μ3-tellurido-triiiron(II)(2Fe—Fe)

The sterically hindered title complex, [Fe(3)Te(2)(C(36)H(40)N(2))(CO)(7)], was obtained by substitution of two carbonyl groups in the [Fe(3)(μ(3)-Te)(2)(CO)(9)] cluster by the bulky redox-active N,N'-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)acenaphthene-1,2-diimine (dpp-BIAN) ligand. The asymmetric unit contains two molecules of the same geometry. The C=N bond lengths in dpp-BIAN indicate a rather low level of electron transfer from the cluster core to the dpp-BIAN ligand.