A high-nuclearity complex containing a decanuclear iron(iii)/oxo cage in a football-like structure and rare (R -/ S)-hemiacetalate ligands in a butterfly-like format

Chunying Zheng, Mingyue Liang, Haofen Sun, Jiping Ma, Xuejun Bi, Yang Zhao, Weiqiang Tan*, Hui Li

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Abstract

A challenge in the field of high nuclearity Fe(iii)/oxo cluster chemistry remains the development of new synthetic methods to such molecules. In this work, the employment of pyridine-2-carboxaldehyde (py-2-al) in high-nuclearity transition-metal cluster chemistry has provided access to an unprecedented decanuclear iron(iii) complex, [Fe10(NO3)7(O)6(OH0.5)2((S)-py-hemi)4((R)-py-hemi)4]·4H2O (1) ((R-/S)-py-hemi = (R-/S)-pyridine-2-carboxaldehyde hemiacetalate). The synthesis, beautiful structure and the physical characterization (thermal gravimetric analysis, X-ray powder diffraction, proton nuclear magnetic resonance, magnetic susceptibility) of complex 1 are described in this contribution. Complex 1 provides a new route to obtain high nuclearity magnetic clusters with beautiful structures.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)39965-39969
Number of pages5
JournalRSC Advances
Volume9
Issue number68
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019

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