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Supertetrahedral decametallic Ni(II) clusters directed by micro(6)-tris-alkoxides
Rachel Shaw1, Ian S Tidmarsh, Rebecca H Laye
1Department of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UKM13 9PL.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|June 5, 2004
Abstract:
We report the syntheses, structures and magnetic properties of two decametallic Ni(II) clusters with unprecedented supertetrahedral cores, stabilised by the (hitherto unobserved) micro(6)-coordination modes of the tris-alkoxides [MeC(CH(2)O)(3)](3-) and [C(6)H(9)O(3)](3-).