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Assembly of a M4L4 "folded-cube" using a T-shaped, right-angled ligand
Ismail Elguraish1, Kelong Zhu, Leslie A Hernandez
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9B 3P4. loeb@uwindsor.ca.
Dalton Transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)
|December 3, 2014
Abstract:
A new bipyridine ligand based on a T-shaped 2,4,7-trisubstituted benzimidazole framework was synthesized with a 90° angle between the two nitrogen donors. When combined with convergent [Pt(dppp)](2+) corners, eight right angles (four metal and four ligand) combine to form a M4L4 cluster with an unusual folded-cube structure.