Pentadecadentate chelating ligands as building blocks for a [Fe6] cage with 12 exo-coordinated sodium cations

Geoffrey J T Cooper; Hamera Abbas; Paul Kögerler; De-Liang Long; Leroy Cronin

doi:10.1021/ic049068w

Pentadecadentate chelating ligands as building blocks for a [Fe6] cage with 12 exo-coordinated sodium cations

Inorg Chem. 2004 Nov 15;43(23):7266-8. doi: 10.1021/ic049068w.

Authors

Geoffrey J T Cooper¹, Hamera Abbas, Paul Kögerler, De-Liang Long, Leroy Cronin

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, The University of Glasgow, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland, U.K.

PMID: 15530071
DOI: 10.1021/ic049068w

Abstract

Complexation of the highly branched, pentadecadentate chelating ligand cis,cis-1,3,5-cyclohexanetriamine-N,N,N',N',N",N"-hexaacetic acid (H(6)L) with iron(III) and sodium cations in the presence of carbonate anions leads to the formation of an [Fe6L2] cluster comprising an [Fe6] cage linked by 12 exo-coordinated sodium cations to form an extended 3D array.