A Low‐Symmetry Fe <sup>II</sup> Tetrahedron From a Flexible Tritopic Ligand
homoleptic face-capped tetrahedron from a symmetric and flexible tris-bidentate tritopic ligand. The symmetry of the tetrahedron is solvent mediated, with the meso cage forming near-quantitatively in acetonitrile, while nitromethane causes the partial isomerisation to the racemic homochiral tetrahedron. The formation of this low symmetry tetrahedron is driven by ligand flexibility, which we attribute to the meso isomer effectively minimising its solvent shell and the ligand strongly favouring negative stereochemical coupling between metal centres, compared to the homochiral cage, thus being the dominant cage when in acetonitrile.
Authors
- Rosemary J. Goodwin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7821-5499)
- Dan Preston (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1093-8153)
- Nina R. Lawson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3177-8846)
- Michael G. Gardiner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4727-7181)
- Jack D. Evans
- Paul E. Kruger
Institutions
- Australian National University (AU)
- The University of Adelaide (AU)
- MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology (NZ)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Chemistry - A European Journal
- Published
- 2026-04-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.71043
- Primary Topic
- Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Australian National University