Trigonal prismatic metal complexes: a not so rare coordination geometry?

Leighton J Alcock; Germán Cavigliasso; Anthony C Willis; Robert Stranger; Stephen F Ralph

doi:10.1039/c6dt01176d

Trigonal prismatic metal complexes: a not so rare coordination geometry?

Dalton Trans. 2016 May 31;45(22):9036-40. doi: 10.1039/c6dt01176d.

Authors

Leighton J Alcock¹, Germán Cavigliasso², Anthony C Willis², Robert Stranger², Stephen F Ralph¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Chemistry, University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong 2522, Australia. sralph@uow.edu.au.
² Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 0200, Australia.

PMID: 27125359
DOI: 10.1039/c6dt01176d

Abstract

The solid state structures of two metal complexes of a hexaamine macrobicyclic ligand, in which the metal ion has an exact trigonal prismatic geometry, have been determined. Theoretical calculations showed this is the most stable geometry for d(0), d(10) and high spin d(5) metal complexes of the ligand with M-N bond distances >∼2.35 Å.