Université de Fribourg

Diastereoselective synthesis of coordination compounds: a chiral tripodal ligand based on bipyridine units and its ruthenium(II) and iron(II) complexes

Hamann, Christine ; Zelewsky, Alexander von ; Neels, Antonia ; Stoeckli-Evans, Helen

In: Dalton Transactions, 2004, vol. 3, p. 402-406

The enantiomerically pure chiral tris-chelating ligand (+)-(7S,10R)-L(L) comprising three 4,5-pinenobipyridine subunits connected through a mesityl spacer has been synthesized. Complexes of L with RuII and FeII have been prepared and characterised. NMR spectroscopy indicates that...