Assembly of a terthiophene-containing metallamacrocycle.

A metallamacrocycle in which conjugated terthiophene groups link the metals is assembled from a labile Pd complex.

Structural and electronic properties of phosphino(oligothiophene) gold(I) complexes.

A series of gold(I) complexes containing phosphino(oligothiophene) ligands of varying conjugation length has been prepared. Solid state crystal structures of (PT3)AuCl (PT3 = 5-diphenylphosphino-2,2':5',2' '-terthiophene) and AuCl(PTP)AuCl (PTP = 2,5-diphenylphosphinothiophene) have been obtained. The complex AuCl(PTP)AuCl crystallizes as a dimer with two intermolecular Au-Au contacts.