Ni(II)20 "Bowls" from the Use of Tridentate Schiff Bases

Konstantina I Alexopoulou; Aris Terzis; Catherine P Raptopoulou; Vassilis Psycharis; Albert Escuer; Spyros P Perlepes

doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b00521

Ni(II)20 "Bowls" from the Use of Tridentate Schiff Bases

Inorg Chem. 2015 Jun 15;54(12):5615-7. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b00521. Epub 2015 Jun 2.

Authors

Konstantina I Alexopoulou¹, Aris Terzis², Catherine P Raptopoulou², Vassilis Psycharis², Albert Escuer³, Spyros P Perlepes¹

Affiliations

¹ †Department of Chemistry, University of Patras, GR-26504 Patras, Greece.
² ‡Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, NCSR "Demokritos", GR-15310 Agia Paraskevi Attiki, Greece.
³ §Departament de Quimica Inorganica and Institut de Nanociencia i Nanotecnologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Diagonal 645, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.

PMID: 26035237
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b00521

Abstract

The reactions of N-salicylidene-o-aminophenol or its derivatives and excess of nickel(II) acetate in alcohols have led to Ni(II)20 clusters with an unprecedented "bowl" metal topology.