Construction of a mixed valence trinuclear MnIIMnIIIMnII aggregate into a large macrocyclic ligandElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: synthetic route to diamine (daud) and 1H NMR data for all products obtained at each step. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cc/b0/b003479g
Abstract
A Schiff-base [2 + 2] macrocycle obtained by the reaction of 2,6-diformyl-4-methylphenol with 1,11-diamino-3,9-dimethyl-3,9-diazo-6-oxaundecane encapsulates three manganese ions into its cavity; EPR, UV–VIS–NIR, XPS spectroscopic data, X-ray crystallography and magnetic measurements showed that the metal ions are in a mixed valence state (II, III, II) which is rare for trimanganese systems.