When three is not a crowd: the first trinuclear complexes of N4-substituted-3,5-dipyridyl-1,2,4-triazole ligands, [Fe(II)3(Rdpt)4(NCS)6]

Jonathan A Kitchen; Guy N L Jameson; Victoria A Milway; Jeffery L Tallon; Sally Brooker

doi:10.1039/c0dt00716a

When three is not a crowd: the first trinuclear complexes of N4-substituted-3,5-dipyridyl-1,2,4-triazole ligands, [Fe(II)3(Rdpt)4(NCS)6]

Dalton Trans. 2010 Sep 7;39(33):7637-9. doi: 10.1039/c0dt00716a. Epub 2010 Jul 21.

Authors

Jonathan A Kitchen¹, Guy N L Jameson, Victoria A Milway, Jeffery L Tallon, Sally Brooker

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, and The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, 9054, New Zealand.

PMID: 20648390
DOI: 10.1039/c0dt00716a

Abstract

The first examples of trinuclear complexes of any dipyridyltriazole, [Fe(II)(3)(Rdpt)(4)(NCS)(6)], are, respectively: [HS-HS-HS] when Rdpt = phdpt and "[LS-HS-LS]" when Rdpt = ibdpt.