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Chem. Commun., 2006, 4386 - 4388, DOI: 10.1039/b609931a


Tetrametallic rectangular box complexes assembled from heteroligated macrocycles

Aaron M. Brown, Maxim V. Ovchinnikov, Charlotte L. Stern and Chad A. Mirkin


The reaction of a heteroligated Rh(I) bimetallic macrocycle with rigid ditopic ligands (1,4-dicyanobenzene, 4-4-dicyanobiphenyl, or dipyridyl terminated salen ligand 5) results in the formation of tetrametallic rectangular box complexes.

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