Raman Spectroscopy of Three Average-Valence Dicopper Cryptates: Evidence for Copper-Copper Bonding.

Comparison of the X-ray structures of two pairs of dicopper(I) and dicopper(1.5) cryptates provides evidence (over 0.5 Å contraction of the internuclear distance in one pair) for copper-copper bond formation.

Structural and Kinetic Studies of Spin Crossover in an Iron(II) Complex with a Novel Tripodal Ligand.

Configurational and ligand conformational influences on the kinetics of (1)A(1) right harpoon over left harpoon (5)T(2) spin crossover in the Fe(II) complex with the novel tripodal ligand, 1,1,1-tris((N-(2-pyridylmethyl)-N-methylamino)methyl)ethane (tptMetame), have been explored. Despite having six chelate rings and three chiral nitrogen atoms, only one enantiomeric pair of isomers, Delta, SSS, and Lambda, RRR, of the complex ion is observed. The conformation of the three rings forming the upper "cap" of the complex structure can be assigned delta or lambda with respect to the 3-fold molecular axis.