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Preparation and characterization of conducting trimetallic nickel-dithiolene complexes with bridging tetrathiooxalate
Kazuya Kubo1, Akiko Nakao, Hiroshi M Yamamoto
1RIKEN, JST-CREST, 2-1, Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan. kkubo@riken.jp
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|September 21, 2006
Abstract:
Trimetallic nickel dithiolene complexes with two tetrathiooxalate (tto) ligands were obtained by a reaction monitored by ESI-mass spectrometry followed by HPLC separation and were characterized by elemental or crystal structural analysis, MO calculations, and electrical conductivity measurements.
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