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POLYHEDRON
Volume 26, Issue 15, Pages 4209-4215Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.poly.2007.05.019
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compartmental Schiff base ligands; 3d-alkaline-earth heterometallic complexes; dinuclear Cu-Ca complexes; trinuclear Cu-Ca-Cu complexes; single-crystal X-ray structures; magnetic properties
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We demonstrate with the help of structural determinations and spectroscopic data that the nuclearity of Cu-Ca complexes derived from compartmental Schiff base ligands does not depend on the ionic radius of calcium. The main factors governing these reactions are the different affinities of the calcium ions for the anionic species present in solution: the tetradentate O2O2 coordination site of the ligand and the nitrato ions. Because these affinities do vary upon going from calcium to lanthanide ions, it is not possible to use the template effect of the trinuclear Cu-Ca-Cu complexes in order to prepare the corresponding Cu-Ln-Cu complexes. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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