Tetranuclear [M 4 (OEt) 8 (L 1 ) (μ-O) 2 ] and dinuclear H (μ-O)] complexes (M = Nb, Ta) derived from benzilic acid diphenylglycine 3 have been structurally characterized are capable of the ROP μ-caprolactone rac -lactide.

A method to modulate the strength of the superexchange coupling interaction in dinuclear helical assemblies based on the coordination preferences of the metal centres is described.

The title centrosymmetric dinuclear Ni(II) complex, [Ni(C(14)H(8)O(4)S)(C(3)H(7)NO)](n), was prepared via reaction of Ni(NO(3))(2)·6H(2)O and thio-salicylic acid, with H(2)O and dimethyl-formamide (DMF) as the mixed solvent. The central Ni(II) ion is five-coordinated by five O atoms from DMF and from the carboxyl-ate groups of the organic ligand. The symmetry-related coordination polyhedra inte...

Two new AIE-active dinuclear Schiff base Ir(III) complexes exhibit highly reversible piezochromic phosphorescence behaviour enabling the construction of a re-writable phosphorescence data recording device.

A rare class of mixed-metal [2]catenane has been assembled via magic ring synthesis of dinuclear copper(II) and gold(III) dithiocarbamate macrocycles.

A discrete dinuclear Ag(I) complex undergoes a single-crystal-to-single-crystal transformation to generate a 1D coordination polymer with a polycyclobutane backbone.

Preparation and structural analysis of chiral dinuclear vanadium(v) catalysts with high catalytic activity for the oxidative coupling of 2-naphthols are described.

The paper reports the synthesis and characterisation of a series of flexible di-bidentate bridging ligands in which two 4-methyl-2,2'-bipyridine groups are linked at the 4'-position by polymethylene (bb(n)), linear polyether (bbO(n)) or linear alkylamine (bbN(n)) chains of varying length (n). The enantiomers (ΔΔ/ΛΛ) of the rac forms of the ruthenium(ii) dinuclear complexes incorporating these l...

Dinuclear paddlewheels linked by 5-methylisophthalate and dabco act as 5-connecting nodes to form a highly symmetric open framework based on three different Archimedean polyhedra.