Rolf Blaauw, Juul L. van der Baan, Sijbe Balt, Martinus W. G. de Bolster, Gerhard W. Klumpp, Huub Kooijman and Anthony L. Spek
Air oxidation of a CoII(salen) derivative, whose ethanediyl moiety carries a methylene-linked 4-hydroxypent-1-en-3-yl substituent, yields an intramolecularly bridged (tetrahydrofurfuryl)CoIII(salen) complex of which the crystal structure has been determined; this B12 model is very resistant to Co–C bond homolysis, even in the presence of a large excess of the radical trap TEMPO.