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Article citation: Seán T. Meally, CrystEngComm, 2010, DOI: 10.1039/b914538a


Planar [Ni7] discs as double-bowl, pseudo metallacalix[6]arene host cavities

Seán T. Meally, Georgios Karotsis, Euan K. Brechin, Giannis S. Papaefstathiou, Peter W. Dunne, Patrick McArdle and Leigh F. Jones


We report three heptanuclear [Ni7] complexes with planar disc-like cores, akin to double-bowl metallocalix[6]arenes, which form molecular H-bonded host cavities.

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