The following is a proton
spectrum of the Iridium Buckyball complex pictured above. Note the
large negative chemical shift of the metal hydride and its coupling
to two phosphorous nuclei to yield a triplet.
This is an expanded view of the
metal hydride triplet:
For additional information see:
Serge Schreiner, Thomas N. Gallaher and Henri K. Parsons,
"Synthesis of Metal Fullerene Derivatives from Chloro Hydrido
Transition Metal Complexes", Inorg. Chem., Vol. 33, No. 13,
3021-3022 (1994).
