Chromium chains as polydentate fluoride ligands for lanthanides

Andrew McRobbie; Asad R Sarwar; Steven Yeninas; Harriott Nowell; Michael L Baker; David Allan; Marshall Luban; Christopher A Muryn; Robin G Pritchard; Ruslan Prozorov; Grigore A Timco; Floriana Tuna; George F S Whitehead; Richard E P Winpenny

doi:10.1039/c1cc11516b

Chromium chains as polydentate fluoride ligands for lanthanides

Chem Commun (Camb). 2011 Jun 14;47(22):6251-3. doi: 10.1039/c1cc11516b. Epub 2011 May 6.

Authors

Andrew McRobbie¹, Asad R Sarwar, Steven Yeninas, Harriott Nowell, Michael L Baker, David Allan, Marshall Luban, Christopher A Muryn, Robin G Pritchard, Ruslan Prozorov, Grigore A Timco, Floriana Tuna, George F S Whitehead, Richard E P Winpenny

Affiliation

¹ The Lewis Magnetism Laboratory, School of Chemistry and Photon Science Institute, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK M13 9PL.

PMID: 21552574
DOI: 10.1039/c1cc11516b

Abstract

Hexametallic chromium(III) chains can act as fluoride donor ligands to lanthanide ions giving {(Cr(6))Ln(x)}(n) complexes; preliminary spectroscopic studies are reported.