The redox potentials for successive oxidations in a series of ligand-bridged dinuclear ruthenium complexes are shown to be dependent on the identity of the anion used as the electrolyte in the electrochemical measurements. Since the differences between these redox potentials (DeltaE(ox)) are often used to calculate the comproportionation equilibrium constants (K(c)) in mixed-valence species--an...

Treatment of a dinuclear Ru(II) amido complex [Cp*Ru(mu2-NHPh)]2 (Cp* = eta5-C5Me5) with small organic substrates including CO, tert-butyl isocyanide, a sulfur ylide Ph2S=CH2, and diphenylacetylene resulted in an unexpected disproportionation reaction of the bridging amido ligands to produce a free amine and a series of imido-bridged diruthenium complexes [(Cp*Ru)2(mu2-L)(mu2-NPh)] (L = CO, t-B...

A dinuclear copper(i) complex bearing a mesoionic carbene ligand has been prepared from the corresponding silver analogue and its structure determined spectroscopically. The results revealed that two Cu(i) halide salt molecules were bound to the carbon atoms of the pyridine-bridged bis(triazolylidene) moieties rather than the pyridine. Cyclic voltammogram measurements revealed that the two Cu(i...

The title complex, [Ni(2)(C(11)H(11)Br(2)N(2)O)(2)(NCS)(2)], is a thio-cyanate-bridged dinuclear nickel(II) complex. The asymmetric unit contains two molecules. Both Ni atoms in each molecule have a square-pyramidal coordination geometry, and each center is bound by one O and two N atoms of one Schiff base ligand and by one N atom of a bridging thio-cyanate ligand, which define the basal planes...

The title compound, [Cu(2)(C(31)H(30)Cl(2)N(4)O(4))Cl(2)]·CH(3)CN, was synthesized by cyclo-condensation between N,N'-bis-(2-fur-yl)-N,N'-bis-(3-formyl-5-chloro-salicylaldehyde)ethyl-enediamine and 1,3-diamino-propane in the presence of Cu(II) ions. It is an unsymmetrical dinuclear Cu(II) complex. The coordination geometry for each Cu(II) atom can be discribed as distorted square-pyramidal. The...

In the title centrosymmetric complex, [Eu(2)(C(4)H(5)O(2))(6)(H(2)O)(4)]·2C(4)H(6)O(2), the unique Eu(III) cation is coordinated by seven carb-oxylate O atoms from four methacrylate ligands and two water mol-ecules in a slightly disorted tricapped trigonal-prismatic environment. Two Eu(III) ions are bridged by carboxyl-ate groups, forming a dinuclear complex. The formula unit also contains two ...

The centrosymmetric dinuclear title compound, [Cu2I2(C2H6OS)2(C18H15P)2], represents the first example of a CuI complex ligated by an O-bound dimethyl sulfoxide ligand. In the crystal, the two tetrahedrally coordinated Cu(I) atoms are bridged by two μ2-iodido ligands in an almost symmetrical rhomboid geometry. The loose Cu⋯Cu contact of 2.9874 (8) Å is longer than the sum of the van der Waals r...

The dinuclear title complex, [Ti(2)(C(10)H(15))(2)(C(6)F(5)O)(4)O], features two Ti(IV) atoms bridged by an O atom, which lies on an inversion centre. The Ti(IV) atom is bonded to a η(5)-penta-methyl-cyclo-penta-dienyl ring, two penta-fluoro-phenolate anions and to the bridging O atom. The environment around the Ti(IV) atom can be considered as a distorted tetra-hedron. The cyclo-penta-dienyl r...

A series of potentially tetradentate and pentadentate ligands modelled on BPMEN has been prepared and their iron(II) bis(triflate) complexes have been isolated and characterised by spectroscopic and crystallographic techniques (BPMEN = N,N'-bis(pyridylmethyl)ethylenediamine). Changes to the BPMEN ligand have invariably led to complexes with different coordination modes or geometries and with in...

In the title dinuclear compound, [V(2)(C(15)H(17)N(2)O)(2)O(4)], each V(V) atom is six-coordinated by one oxide group, and by two N and one O atom of the tridentate Schiff base ligand, and bridged by two additional oxide O atoms, resulting in a centrosymmetric dimer. The metal centre has a distorted octa-hedral coordination with the monoanionic Schiff base ligand occupying one equatorial and tw...