Self-recognition in a flexible bis(pyrrole) Schiff base derivative: formation of a one-dimensional hydrogen-bonded polymer.

The title Schiff base compound, N,N'-bis(pyrrol-2-ylmethylene)propane-1,2-diamine, C(13)H(16)N(4), forms an interesting supramolecular structure (a one-dimensional ladder-like polymer) in the solid state that is based on the existence of complementary intermolecular N-H.N=C hydrogen bonds between the monomer units. The polymer axis is collinear with the c axis of the orthorhombic unit cell.

The first phosphite complex of a metalloporphyrin.

(Diphenyl phosphite-kappaO)(5,10,15,20-tetraphenylporphyrinato-kappa(4)N)manganese(III) hexafluoroantimonate(V), [Mn(C(44)H(28)N(4))(C(12)H(11)O(3)P)](SbF(6)), is the first example of a structurally characterized diaryl or dialkyl phosphite complex of a metal-porphyrin ion. The axial phosphite ligand binds to the Mn(III) ion via the P=O O atom, affording a nominally five-coordinate complex with an Mn-O distance of 2.120 (4) A.