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Dalton Trans., 2009, 9924 - 9928, DOI: 10.1039/b909371k

Octanuclear manganese(II,III) clusters stabilized with diamino-alcoxo ligands

Albert Escuer, Ramon Vicente, M. Salah El Fallah, E. Carolina Sañudo, Simon J. Teat, Fabrizia Fabrizi de Biani and Piero Zanello

The employment of the 1,3-bis(dimethylamino)-2-propanolate (bdmap) ligand as a chelating/bridging ligand in manganese chemistry is described. The reaction of Mn(R-BzO)2 and bdmap affords [Mn8(O)4(R-BzO)12(bdmap)2(H2O)2], R = H ( 1), R = 3-Cl ( 2) and R = 4-Cl ( 3), which are mixed-valence MnII2MnIII6 clusters. Structural characterization was achieved for 1 and 2, which can be described as a central double defective dicubane MnIII4 subunit, capped by two oxo-bridged MnII-(bdmap)-MnIII dinuclear units. DC variable-temperature magnetic susceptibility studies were carried out in the 2–300 K range, revealing an overall antiferromagnetic behaviour for 1–3. This work demonstrates for the first time the ability of this kind of polytopic ligands in high nuclearity manganese chemistry.

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