Structural and magnetic variations in tetranuclear Ni(II) clusters: the effect of the reaction solvent and ligand substitution on product identity

Panagiota S Perlepe; Angeliki A Athanasopoulou; Konstantina I Alexopoulou; Catherine P Raptopoulou; Vassilis Psycharis; Albert Escuer; Spyros P Perlepes; Theocharis C Stamatatos

doi:10.1039/c4dt02434f

Structural and magnetic variations in tetranuclear Ni(II) clusters: the effect of the reaction solvent and ligand substitution on product identity

Dalton Trans. 2014 Nov 28;43(44):16605-9. doi: 10.1039/c4dt02434f.

Authors

Panagiota S Perlepe¹, Angeliki A Athanasopoulou, Konstantina I Alexopoulou, Catherine P Raptopoulou, Vassilis Psycharis, Albert Escuer, Spyros P Perlepes, Theocharis C Stamatatos

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, 500 Glenridge Ave, Brock University, L2S 3A1 St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. tstamatatos@brocku.ca.

PMID: 25307956
DOI: 10.1039/c4dt02434f

Abstract

Three structurally and magnetically different tetranuclear Ni(II) complexes have been isolated and magnetically characterized, emphasizing the effect of the reaction solvent and organic ligand substitution on the chemical identity of cluster compounds.