Initial employment of α-benzoin oxime as a route to high-nuclearity metal clusters: decanuclear CuII complexes with a wheel topology

Abstract

The initial employment of α-benzoin oxime (bzoxH₂) in metal cluster chemistry has provided access to a new family of decanuclear Cu^II complexes with a loop or single-strand wheel topology; the Cu^II₁₀clusters are antiferromagnetically-coupled with an S = 0 spin ground state, as expected for even-membered loop arrays of Cu^II atoms.