The synthesis and characterisation of a multidentate conformationally flexible ligand based on the dibenzylidene acetone core structure, dbathiophos (1), is described. Ligand 1 has a high affinity for cationic and neutral Cu(I) species. Three unique Cu(I) complexes (4-6) are reported showing that the ligand backbone of dbathiophos is hemilabile, and able to adopt different 1,4-dien-3-one confor...

The title compound, C(15)H(14)N(10), is a multidentate ligand obtained by the reaction of 5-(2-pyrid-yl)tetra-zole with 1,3-dibromo-propane. The mol-ecule consists of two 5-(2-pyrid-yl)-1H-tetra-zol-1-yl units connected by a propyl-ene bridge in a U-like conformation. A twofold rotation axis passes through the central C atom.

The kinetics of the reactions between [Ni(MeOH)6](2+) (hereafter Ni(2+)) and a variety of neutral Schiff base multidentate ligands have been measured in methanol at 25.0 °C using stopped-flow spectrophotometry. The ligands contain a variety of different potential donor sites (phenolic OH, imine N, pyridyl N and NH groups), different structural components and substituents. The kinetic studies ex...

Starting from heterotopic multidentate ligand 2,2'-(1,2-phenylenedisulfanediyl)diacetic acid, (RS,RS,RS,RS/SS,SS,SS,SS)-[Ag{1,2-C6H4(SCH2COOH)2-κ2S,S'}2]BF4 (1) was prepared and further used as a building block for the synthesis of heterobimetallic Ag-Cd coordination polymer [Ag2Cd2{1,2-(OOCCH2S)2C6H4}3 (H2O)3·5H2O]n (2). Both complexes were characterized by X-ray structure analysis and convent...

The title compound, C14H13NO2, is a commercially available material and can be used as a multidentate ligand. The mol-ecule of the asymmetric unit has an R configuration, while the corresponding S-configured mol-ecule of the racemic mixture is generated by a crystallographic centre of symmetry. Both hy-droxy groups (the H atom of the oxime group is equally disordered over two positions) are inv...

Multidentate Schiff base ligands derived from a selection of biphenyl- and terphenyl polyamines were synthesized, their reactivity towards divalent (Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd) trivalent (Co, Y, Lu) metals was studied by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis, NMR spectroscopy, UV/Vis spectroscopy for the Cu(II) complexes. Large variations in resulting complexes observed based on relative position amine...