Synergistic ligand effect for the construction of titanium–oxo clusters with planar chirality and high solution stability

Abstract

A synergistic effect between dimethylglyoxime (to stabilize the Ti–O ribbon) and nonlinear dicarboxylate ligands (to bend the Ti–O ribbon) has been developed to form a series of planar chiral titanium–oxo clusters with high solution stability. The charality of the obtained clusters has been studied by X-ray structural and CD spectroscopy analysis.