1,2,4,5-Tetracyanobenzene (TCNB) was reacted with [Cu(dppf)(CH3CN)2](BF4) and [Cu(dchpf)(CH3CN)](BF4), dppf = 1,1'-bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene and dchpf = 1,1'-bis(dicyclohexylphosphino)ferrocene, to produce a heterotetranuclear metallamacrocycle 1, {[Cu(dppf)(μ-TCNB)](BF4)}2, and a heterooctanuclear complex 2, [{Cu(dchpf)}4(μ4-TCNB)](BF4)4. Complex 1 is the first example of a structurally ...

In the title mol-ecular salt [systematic name: triethylammonium 5-(2,4-dinitrophenyl)-2,6-dioxo-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyrim-idin-4-olate], C(6)H(16)N(+)·C(10)H(5)N(4)O(7) (-), the cation and anion are linked by an N-H⋯O hydrogen bond. In the crystal, inversion-related barbiturate rings are centrosymmetrically connected through pairs of N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, forming R(2) (2)(8)R(2) (2)(8) ring motifs.

A Re(IV) cluster complex [Re(3)(μ(3)-S)(μ-S)(3)(dppe)(3)Br(3)](+) with nine cluster skeletal electrons (CSE) and a quadruplet ground state has been prepared by treatment of [Re(3)S(7)Br(6)]Br with 1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane (dppe) in MeCN.

Treatment of a newly prepared digold(i) complex, [Au2(dppe)(H2msa)2] ([H41]; dppe = 1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane, msa = thiomalate), with Ni(2+) gave two interconvertible multinuclear complexes, [Ni{Au2(dppe)(msa)2}](2-) ([2](2-)) and [Ni3{Au2(dppe)(Hmsa)2}{Au2(dppe)(msa)2}(MeOH)3] ([3]), dependent on solution acidities.

Methanol drives the blue emissive complex, [Cu(2)(dppy)(3)(MeCN)](BF(4))(2) (dppy = diphenylphosphino-pyridine), with a head-to-tail arrangement of the three bridging phosphine ligands to convert to its linkage isomer (head-to-head, green emissive) in the solid state, and the transformation could be reversibly realized through recrystallization in different solvents.

Tertiary chiral nanostructures have been created by assembling chiroptical superatoms of [Au7Ag6Cu2(S- or R-BINAP)3(SCH2Ph)6]+ (BINAP=2,2′-bis(diphenylphosphino)-1,1′-binaphthyl). Both metal framework (primary structure) and surface ligands (secondary) the nanocluster display perfect mirror symmetry. C−H⋅⋅⋅F hydrogen bonding between clusters SbF6− counterions direct formation left- right-handed...