First of a new family of tetraamine bis(µ-thiolate)-containing macrocycles: structure and stepwise oxidations and reductions of the dinickel(II) complex

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Sally Brooker, Paul D. Croucher, Tony C. Davidson, Geoffrey S. Dunbar, A. James McQuillan and Geoffrey B. Jameson


Abstract

Reduction of a dinickel(II) dithiolate Schiff-base macrocyclic complex with sodium borohydride results in a ‘bowl’-shaped dinickel(II) dithiolate amine macrocyclic complex which exhibits four separate one-electron redox processes.


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