Template condensation on iron(II) ion of dichloroglyoxime (H2C12Gm) with (C6H5O)3, n-C4H9B(O-n-C4H9)2, and BF3.O(C2H5)2 in CH3NO2 afforded reactive clathrochelate precursors Fe(C12Gm)3(BC6H5)2 (2), Fe(C12Gm)3(B-n-C4H9)2 (3), and Fe(C12Gm)3(BF)2 (4). A series of triribbed-functionalized clathrochelate dioximates have been synthesized. Reaction of 2 with C6H5SH/K2CO3 and CH3SH/t-C4H9OK in 1,4-dioxane and THF afforded Fe((C6H5S)2Gm)3(BC6H5)2 (5) and Fe((CH3S)2Gm)3(BC6H5)2 (6). Reaction of 3 with C6H5OK in THF afforded Fe((C6H5O)2Gm)3(B-n-C4H9)2 (7). Condensation of 3 with bis(2-(o-oxyphenoxy))diethyl ether in THF afforded di- and tricrown etheric Fe(CwGm)2(C12Gm)(Bn-C4H9)2 (8) and Fe(CwGm)3(B-n-C4H9)2 (9) clathrochelates. Condensation of 3 with 3,5-dithiaoctane-1,8-dithiol/Cs2CO3 in DMF afforded the thiocrown etheric Fe((12anS4)Gm)3(BC6H5)2 complex (10). Reaction of 2 with n-butylamine in DMF resulted in the tetrasubstituted Fe((n-C4H9NH)2Gm)2(C12Gm)(BC6H5)2 clathrochelate (11). The clathrochelates obtained have been characterized both on the basis of elemental analysis, FAB and PD mass spectrometry, IR, UV-vis, 57Fe Mössbauer, and NMR spectroscopies and crystallographically (compounds 3, 4, 6, 7, and 11). An encapsulated iron(II) ion in a distorted trigonal-prismatic environment of six nitrogen atoms of the macrobicyclic ligand was found to be in a low-spin state. The cyclic voltammograms for the complexes 2-11 show irreversible oxidation waves assignable to Fe3+/Fe2+ couples. The correlation of E1/2 for these couples with Hammet sigma para constants for substituents in dioximate fragments has been demonstrated.

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The atomic interactions and anharmonicity of atomic displacements in the virtual ferroelectric KTaO3, potassium tantalate, have been studied using accurate single-crystal X-ray diffraction at room temperature. The multipole analysis of electron density and Gram-Charlier series description of anharmonic atomic displacements allowed us to perform a quantitative analysis of the chemical bonding and atomic motion in this crystal. Closed-shell interactions between Ta-O and K-O pairs of atoms were found, while no interaction was observed for the Ta-K and O-O atomic pairs. The character of the anharmonic atomic displacements is discussed and compared with those in SrTiO3.

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The electron density and electronic energy densities in ethyl 4,6-dimethyl-2-thioxo-1,2,3,4-tetrahydropyrimidine-5-carboxylate have been studied from accurate X-ray diffraction measurements at 110 K and theoretical single-molecule and periodic crystal calculations. The Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules and Crystals (QTAMC) was applied to analyze the electron-density and electronic energy-density features to estimate their reproducibility in molecules and crystals. It was found that the local electron-density values at the bond critical points derived by different methods are in reasonable agreement, while the Laplacian of the electron density computed from wavefunctions, and electron densities derived from experimental or theoretical structure factors in terms of the Hansen-Coppens multipole model differ significantly. This disagreement results from insufficient flexibility of the multipole model to describe the longitudinal electron-density curvature in the case of shared atomic interactions. This deficiency runs through all the existing QTAMC bonding descriptors which contain the Laplacian term. The integrated atomic characteristics, however, suffer noticeably less from the aforementioned shortcoming. We conclude that the electron-density and electronic energy QTAMC characteristics derived from wavefunctions, especially the integrated quantities, are nowadays the most suitable candidates for analysis of the transferability of atoms and atomic groups in similar compounds.