Polymetallic complexes of 3d-metals

Design and Serendipity Synthesis of Polymetallic Complexes of 3d-Metals 195... 

Winpenny, Richard E.P., Design and Serendipity in the Synthesis of Polymetallic Complexes of the 3d-Metals, 5, 193. 

Winpenny, R.E.P. (1999) Design and serendipity in the synthesis of polymetallic complexes of the 3d-metals. Perspectives in Supramolecular Chemistry, 5 (Transition Metals in Supramolecular Chemistry) 193-223. 

There exist a vast number of discrete, polymetallic coordination clusters both of the metal-metal bonded type and linked by a tremendous variety of bridging ligands, notably carboxylates. Such compounds are not coordination polymers but oligomers and hence can be more soluble, more well-defined and easier to characterise than coordination polymers, for which they can serve as useful model systems. We will discuss discrete, self-assembled complexes of semi-protected metal ions that act as hosts in solution or as 3D capsules in the next chapter and we will not cover these systems in detail here except to note in passing a couple of examples that are of particular interest. One particularly prominent cluster is Muij-acetate, the mixed-valence compound... 

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