Hai-Ping Huang

Self-assembly of coordination molecular baskets as inorganic analogues of cyclotriveratrylenes (CTV)

A [3 + 3] modular self-assembly gives rise to the formation of basket-shaped, crown ether-functionalized, nano-sized trimetallo-macrocycles, which function as structural analogues of cyclotriveratrylenes (CTV).

Bis(μ-3,5-diphenyl­pyrazolato-κ2N:N′)-bis­[(4,4′-dimethyl-2,2′-bipyridine-κ2N,N′)palladium(II)] bis­(hexa­fluoro­phosphate)

In the crystal structure of the title salt, [Pd2(C15H11N2)2(C12H12N2)2](PF6)2, two (4,4′-dimethyl-2,2′-bipyridine)palladium(II) units are bridged by two pyrazolate ligands in an exodentate fashion. The six-membered ring consisting of the two Pd atoms and the four pyrazolyl N atoms has a boat-shaped conformation and the Pd atoms are four-coordinate in square-planar environments. The cation and both anions have crystallographically imposed mirror symmetry.