Structural aesthetics in molecular nanoscience: a unique Ni26 cluster with a ‘rabbit-face’ topology and a discrete Ni18 ‘molecular chain’

Angeliki A. Athanasopoulou; Melanie Pilkington; Catherine P. Raptopoulou; Albert Escuer; Theocharis C. Stamatatos

doi:10.1039/C4CC07192A

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Structural aesthetics in molecular nanoscience: a unique Ni₂₆ cluster with a ‘rabbit-face’ topology and a discrete Ni₁₈ ‘molecular chain’†

Angeliki A. Athanasopoulou,^a Melanie Pilkington,^a Catherine P. Raptopoulou,^b Albert Escuer^c and Theocharis C. Stamatatos*^a

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^a Department of Chemistry, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
E-mail: tstamatatos@brocku.ca
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^b Institute of Advanced Materials, Physicochemical Processes, Nanotechnology and Microsystems, NCSR “Demokritos”, 153 10 Agia Paraskevi Attikis, Greece

^c Departament de Quimica Inorganica, Universitat de Barcelona, Diagonal 645, 08028 Barcelona, Spain

Abstract

The use of a previously unexplored Schiff-base ligand in Ni(II) carboxylate chemistry has afforded a Ni₂₆ cluster with a record nuclearity that crystallizes with a unique ‘rabbit-face’-like topology, and a Ni₁₈ compound that adopts an unusual ‘molecular chain’ structure.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CC07192A
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 11 Sep 2014
Accepted: 09 Oct 2014
First published: 09 Oct 2014

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Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 14942-14945

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Structural aesthetics in molecular nanoscience: a unique Ni₂₆ cluster with a ‘rabbit-face’ topology and a discrete Ni₁₈ ‘molecular chain’

A. A. Athanasopoulou, M. Pilkington, C. P. Raptopoulou, A. Escuer and T. C. Stamatatos, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 14942 DOI: 10.1039/C4CC07192A

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