We report on five tetranuclear metallamacrocycles with particularly large inner voids of up to 19.4 × 18.9 Å. The macrocyclic complexes were obtained by the self-assembly of spatially extended organic dicarboxylate linkers with two different dinuclear bis(alkenyl) diruthenium precursors. The five complexes include one pair of constitutional isomers, complexes 2-NB and 2-BN, which differ with respect to whether the incorporated triarylamine functionality is part of the "conductive" π-conjugated (2-NB) or the insulating dicarboxylate linkers (2-BN). All macrocyclic complexes were characterized by NMR spectroscopy, UHR ESI mass spectrometry, cyclic and square wave voltammetry, and in two instances by X-ray diffraction studies on single crystals. We also investigated the properties of their various oxidized forms via IR/NIR and UV/vis/NIR spectroelectrochemistry as well as by EPR spectroscopy. DFT studies provide further insight into the structural and electronic properties of these compounds.
Five new, intensely green diferrocenylphenylmethylium complexes 1+-5+ with electron donating (EDG: 4-MeO, 4-Me, 4-Br) or withdrawing (EWG: 3,5-CF3, 4-nC6F13) substituents were synthesized and fully characterized. The substituent influence on their...
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