Friday, July 8, 2011

Coordination chemistry: All square for high-spin iron(II)

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Coordination chemistry: All square for high-spin iron(II)


Nature Chemistry 3, 507 (2011).
doi:10.1038/nchem.1078


Author: Patrick L. Holland


Do unusual geometries always come from the force exerted by a protein, a solid-state lattice or bulky ligands? In a new iron(II) complex, simple ligands stabilize a square-planar high-spin complex through finesse rather than force.

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