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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 13.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2011 Jun 17;133(27):10568–10581. doi: 10.1021/ja2021312

Chart 1.

Chart 1

Syn N-donor ligands containing mixed N,O metal binding units. Compounds H2L and H2BIPS spontaneously assemble into bis(ligand) diiron complexes in the presence of base and iron(II) salts. The macrocyclic variant H2PIM was designed to have a flexible ether linkage to prevent ligand interdigitation upon metal complexation.