Reactivity in polynuclear transition metal chemistry as a means to obtain high-spin molecules: substitution of mu 4-OH- by eta 1,mu 4-N3- increases nine times the ground-state S value of a nonanuclear nickel(II) cage

G S Papaefstathiou; A Escuer; R Vicente; M Font-Bardia; X Solans; S P Perlepes

doi:10.1039/b106472j

Reactivity in polynuclear transition metal chemistry as a means to obtain high-spin molecules: substitution of mu 4-OH- by eta 1,mu 4-N3- increases nine times the ground-state S value of a nonanuclear nickel(II) cage

Chem Commun (Camb). 2001 Dec 7:(23):2414-5. doi: 10.1039/b106472j.

Authors

G S Papaefstathiou¹, A Escuer, R Vicente, M Font-Bardia, X Solans, S P Perlepes

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece.

PMID: 12239992
DOI: 10.1039/b106472j

Abstract

The reaction of di-2-pyridyl ketone, (2-py)2CO, with Ni(O2CMe)(2).4H2O yields the cage [Ni9(OH)2(O2CMe)8((2-py)2CO2)4], which reacts further with N3- ions to give the structurally similar cluster [Ni9(N3)2(O2CMe)8((2-py)2CO2)4] containing extremely rare eta 1,mu 4-N3- groups; magnetic studies reveal that the spin ground state of the latter is nine times the ground state of the former.