Heptanuclear hydroxo-bridged copper cluster of the dicubane-like type: structural and magnetic characterisations of [Cu7(OH)6Cl2(pn)6(H2 O)2](C(CN)3)4Cl2 (pn = 1,3-diaminopropane)Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: detailed synthesis and X-ray crystallography of 1. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cc/b1/b105231b/
Abstract
A new polynuclear copper(II) complex [Cu7(OH)6Cl2- (pn)6(H2O)2](C(CN)3)4 Cl2 with hydroxo-bridging ligands has been prepared; the centrosymmetric cluster cation can be described as two Cu4O3Cl distorted cubane units sharing one copper cation.