“…Curiously, copper complexes in both geometries with tripodal ligands showing steric hindrance exhibit intermediate Cu-Cl bond distances among those found for complexes with non-hindered ligands on squarepyramidal and trigonal-bipyramidal geometries, indicating a balance of repulsive and stabilizing chloride/ligand interactions that is geometry independent (Wei et al, 1994;Jitsukawa et al, 2001). (Neves et al, 1997) (1.8939 g, 7.63 mmol) and 1-methyl-2-imidazolecarboxaldehyde (0.8401 g, 7.63 mmol) in ethanolic media (40 ml). The reaction mixture was stirred for 24 h at room temperature, when the solvent was removed by rotaevaporation.…”