Directed secondary interactions in transition metal complexes of tripodal pyrrole imine and amide ligands.

Tripodal pyrrole imine and amide ligands provide platforms for combined primary and secondary coordination sphere interactions in square planar Pd and Cu, and octahedral Ti complexes.

Chlorometallate and palladium cluster complexes of wide-span diimine and diamine ligands.

Diimine and diamine ligands that are unable to coordinate to a single metal favour the formation of unusual, high-nuclearity Zn chlorometallate and palladium chloride complexes.

Donor-extended tripodal pyrroles: encapsulation, metallation, and H-bonded tautomers.

A tripodal iminopyrrole provides an environment suited to the encapsulation of water through hydrogen-bonding, and the formation of metal complexes by deprotonation and imine-pyrrole tautomerisation.