Hexacyanometallates as Templates for Discrete Pentanuclear and Heptanuclear Bimetallic Clusters

HEXACYANOMETALLATES AS TEMPLATES FOR DISCRETE PENTANUCLEAR AND HEPTANUCLEAR BIMETALLIC CLUSTERS 

Submitted by LEONE SPICCIA, KEITH S. MURRAY, and JACQUI F. YOUNG  

School of Chemistry, Monash University, PO Box 23, Victoria 3800, Austraha. 

Inorganic Syntheses, Volume 34, edited by John R. Shapley ISBN 0-471-64750-0 2004 John Wiley Sons, Inc. 

Tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine (tpa) can be prepared by the method reported by Anderegg and Wenk or by a modification reported recently by Canary et al. The latter procedure avoids the isolation of a hydroperchlorate salt. Other reagents are available from commercial sources. 

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