A tetranuclear heterobimetallic square formed from the cooperative ligand binding properties of square planar and tetrahedral metal centers

Nathan C Gianneschi; Chad A Mirkin; Lev N Zakharov; Arnold L Rheingold

doi:10.1021/ic025875o

A tetranuclear heterobimetallic square formed from the cooperative ligand binding properties of square planar and tetrahedral metal centers

Inorg Chem. 2002 Oct 21;41(21):5326-8. doi: 10.1021/ic025875o.

Authors

Nathan C Gianneschi¹, Chad A Mirkin, Lev N Zakharov, Arnold L Rheingold

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208-3113, USA.

PMID: 12377025
DOI: 10.1021/ic025875o

Abstract

Reaction of Rh(I) and Zn(II) metal centers with a ligand containing salicylaldiminato and thioether-phosphine moieties resulted in the formation of a tetranuclear heterobimetallic molecular square. The directionality required to form these structures is imparted by both the tetrahedral and square planar metal centers acting in concert with one another.