Complex transition-metal oxides are important functional materials in areas such as energy and information storage. The cubic ABO3 perovskite is an archetypal example of this class, formed by the occupation of small octahedral B-sites within an AO3 network defined by larger A cations. We show that introduction of chemically mismatched octahedral cations into a cubic perovskite oxide parent phas...

The discovery of the fullerene has raised an interest in the study of other candidates for modeling of carbon molecules. Motivated by works of P. Fowler, Delgado Friedrichs and Deza, Oh(a, b)-fulleroids were defined as cubic convex polyhedra having only a-gonal and bgonal faces and the symmetry group isomorphic with the full symmetry group of regular octahedron. In this paper we give sufficient...

The reaction of [Ni(L)]Cl(2)·2H(2)O (L = 3,14-dimethyl-2,6,13,17-tetraazatricyclo [14,4,0(1.18),0(7.12)]docosane) with trans-1,2-cyclopentanedicarboxylic acid (H(2)-cpdc) yields a 1D hydrogen-bonded infinite chain with formula [Ni(L)(H-cpdc(-))(2)] (1). This complex has been characterized by X-ray crystallography, spectroscopy and cyclic voltammetry. The crystal structure of 1 exhibits a distor...

The tetradentate ligands (R)N4 ((R)N4 = N,N'-di-alkyl-2,11-diaza[3,3](2,6)pyridinophane, R = Me or iPr) were found to stabilize cationic ((R)N4)PdMe(2) and ((R)N4)PdMeCl complexes in both Pd(III) and Pd(IV) oxidation states. This allows for the first time a direct structural and reactivity comparison of the two Pd oxidation states in an identical ligand environment. The Pd(III) complexes exhibi...

Notwithstanding the apparent incompatibility between octahedral and icosahedral symmetries, fragments with the two types of symmetry coexist in many molecules and crystals, as evidenced by continuous shape and symmetry measures. A geometric analysis of Platonic and Archimedean polyhedra and of a variety of molecular and crystal structures strongly suggests that octahedral symmetry is latent in ...

A novel slightly distorted octahedral complex of Cr(III) of norfloxacin (Nor) with the formula [Cr(III)(Nor)(Bipy)Cl2]Cl·2CH3OH has been synthesized hydrothermally in the presence of a N-containing heterocyclic compound 2,2'-bipyridyl (Bipy). The complex was characterized with FT-IR, elemental analysis, UV-visible spectroscopy, and X-ray crystallography. Spectral studies suggest that the Nor ac...

We construct an explicit equivariant cellular decomposition of the $(4n-1)$-sphere with respect to binary polyhedral groups, and describe associated homology chain complex. As a corollary octahedral case, we deduce $\mathfrak{S}_3$-equivariant flag manifold $SL_3(\mathbb{R})$.

An octahedral rhodium complex (cis-dichloro(dipyrido[3,2a-2',3'c]phenazine)(1,10-phenanthroline)rhodium(III) chloride; DPPZPHEN) has been prepared that can penetrate tumor cell membranes and the Sindbis viral capsid. The compound is phototoxic to these entities when irradiated with UVA light. Model studies with calf thymus and supercoiled plasmid DNA indicate that the complex can both bind with...

A new dinuclear cadmium(II) complex, [Cd(L)(NCS)]2 (1) has been synthesized using a potentially tetradentate Schiff base ligand HL, 2-((E)-(2-(diethylamino)ethylimino)methyl)-6-methoxyphenol, obtained by the condensation of 2-diethylaminoethylamine and o-vanillin, and characterized by different physicochemical techniques. Crystal structure of the title complex was unambiguously established by s...