Chair-boat form transformation of piperazine-containing ligand toward the preparation of dirhenium metallacycles

Chung-Chou Lee; Shu-Chun Hsu; Long-Li Lai; Kuang-Lieh Lu

doi:10.1021/ic900040a

Chair-boat form transformation of piperazine-containing ligand toward the preparation of dirhenium metallacycles

Inorg Chem. 2009 Jul 20;48(14):6329-31. doi: 10.1021/ic900040a.

Authors

Chung-Chou Lee¹, Shu-Chun Hsu, Long-Li Lai, Kuang-Lieh Lu

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan.

PMID: 19537809
DOI: 10.1021/ic900040a

Abstract

A new generation of a flexible bipyridine-based ligand, 1,4-bis(4-pyridyl)-piperazine, with two main stable states (chair and twist-boat forms) was employed in the construction of unusual dirhenium metallacycles.