Chemical Communications 2006-01-14

Sterically non-hindering endocyclic ligands of the bi-isoquinoline family.

Fabien Durola, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Oliver S Wenger

Index: Chem. Commun. (Camb.) (2) , 171-3, (2006)

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Abstract

Bi-isoquinoline can be used as a building block to prepare a new family of non-sterically hindering chelates, including a macrocyclic system; the endocyclic nature of the ligands has been confirmed by the X-ray structure of an octahedral tris-chelate iron(II) complex, which shows that the three chelates are easily accommodated in the coordination sphere of the metal in spite of their crescent shape.