A Co8 metallacycle stabilized by double anion-π interactions.
Dimitris I AlexandropoulosBrian S DolinarHaomiao XieKuduva R VigneshKim R DunbarPublished in: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2019)
Self-assembly reactions of CoII ions in the presence of the 2,2-bipyrimidine (bpym) ligand produced both a dinuclear and an octanuclear cation with the nuclearity being governed by hydrogen-bonding versus anion-π interactions between the anions and the ligands.