Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions: Volume 1 (2001)

Issue: 11

• A novel fluorescence redox switch based on the formal NiII/NiI couple Dedicated to Professor Dr. Ernst-G. Jäger, on the occasion of his 65th birthday (pp. 1671-1675) Di Casa, Michela; Fabbrizzi, Luigi; Licchelli, Maurizio; Poggi, Antonio; Sacchi, Donata; Zema, Michele
• Synthesis, characterisation and reactivity of ruthenium bis-bifluoride, ruthenium hydride bifluoride and ruthenium hydride fluoride complexes (pp. 1676-1685) Jasim, Naseralla A.; Perutz, Robin N.; Foxon, Simon P.; Walton, Paul H.
• Salt effects on the electron transfer transition within the binuclear complex [(NH3)5RuIII(μ-CN)FeII(CN)5]−  Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: maximum band energies, redox potentials, free energy changes, reorganization free energies and activation free energies. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b101069g/ (pp. 1686-1691) Pereztejeda, Pilar; Neto-Ponce, Pilar; Sánchez, Francisco
• Towards the formation of dimeric and trimeric lithium benzamidinates: characterization of intermediate structures (pp. 1692-1698) Lisovskii, Anatoli; Botoshansky, Mark; Eisen, Moris S.
• A Schiff-base bibracchial lariat ether selective receptor for lanthanide(III) ions Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: a Table of selected bond angles for complexes 1–3, and a Table of θi and ωi angles for 2 and 3. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b100872m/ (pp. 1699-1705) Platas, Carlos; Avecilla, Fernando; de Blas, Andrés; Rodríguez-Blas, Teresa; Bastida, Rufina; Macías, Alejandro; Rodríguez, Adolfo; Adams, H.
• Trinuclear copper(II) complexes with bridging (N–N) diazine ligands: structural and magnetic studies (pp. 1706-1710) Zhao, Liang; Thompson, Laurence K.; Xu, Zhiqiang; Miller, David O.; Stirling, David R.
• An investigation into the photochemical reactions of MCp(CO)4 (Cp = η5-C5H5) and M(η5-C9H7)(CO)4 (η5-C9H7 = indenyl; M = Nb or Ta) with CO, H2 and N2 in solution at room temperature (pp. 1711-1717) Childs, Gavin I.; Grills, David C.; Gallagher, Skip; Bitterwolf, Thomas E.; George, Michael W.
• A density functional study of ethylene rearrangements assisted by tungsten calix[4]arenes (pp. 1718-1725) Fantacci, Simona; Sgamellotti, Antonio; Re, Nazzareno; Floriani, Carlo
• Electronic structure of [M(η-P3C2But2)(CO)3] (M = Mn or Re): a study by photoelectron spectroscopy and density functional calculations (pp. 1726-1731) Al-Ktaifani, Mahmoud; Green, Jennifer C.; Hitchcock, Peter B.; Nixon, John F.
• The syntheses, structures and reactivity of bis(tert-butylcyclopentadienyl)molybdenum derivatives: nitrogen alkylation of an η2-acetonitrile ligand and influence of the chalcogen on the barrier to inversion of chalcogenoether adducts (pp. 1732-1753) Shin, Jun Ho; Savage, William; Murphy, Vincent J.; Bonanno, Jeffrey B.; Churchill, David G.; Parkin, Gerard
• Heterometallic complexes and clusters with 2-boratanaphthalene ligands Part of the PhD Thesis of E. C. Dedicated to Professor Antonio Tiripicchio on the occasion of his 65th birthday, with our most sincere congratulations and warmest wishes. (pp. 1754-1760) Braunstein, Pierre; Cura, Elisabeth; Herberich, Gerhard E.
• Synthesis and catalytic properties of oxalic amidinato complexes (pp. 1761-1767) Chen, Chi-Tien; Rees, Leigh H.; Cowley, Andrew R.; Green, Malcolm L. H.
• Organophosphoryl adducts of tris(pentafluorophenyl)borane; crystal and molecular structure of B(C6F5)3·Ph3PO (pp. 1768-1772) Beckett, Michael A.; Brassington, David S.; Light, Mark E.; Hursthouse, Michael B.
• Preparation and characterization of palladium and platinum complexes bearing 1,8-bis[(diphenylphosphino)methyl]naphthalene (pp. 1773-1781) Yamamoto, Yasuhiro; Fukui, Yasushi; Matsubara, Katsuaki; Takeshima, Hiroya; Miyauchi, Fumiyoshi; Tanase, Tomoaki; Yamamoto, Gaku
• Selective stepwise carborane substitution in B(3,6) positions in Cp*Ir half-sandwich complexes containing a chelating 1,2-dicarba-closo-dodecaborane-1,2-dichalcogenolato ligand (pp. 1782-1789) Herberhold, Max; Yan, Hong; Milius, Wolfgang; Wrackmeyer, Bernd
• The interaction of organotin(IV) acceptors with a benzoic acid containing two pyrazolone groups Coordination chemistry of bis(pyrazolones): a rational design of nuclearity tailored polynuclear complexes. Part 1. (pp. 1790-1797) Pettinari, Claudio; Marchetti, Fabio; Pettinari, Riccardo; Martini, Domenico; Drozdov, Andrei; Troyanov, Sergei
• Silver complexes with triazolopyrimidine ligands containing an exocyclic oxygen atom: X-ray evidence for an unusual tautomeric form (pp. 1798-1801) Haj, Mohammad Abul; Quirós, Miguel; Salas, Juan M.; Faure, René

Issue: 13

• Synthesis of a rare tridentate dithiocarboxylato complex of molybdenum(IV)Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: rotatable 3-D crystal structure diagram in CHIME format. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b102947a/ (pp. 1927-1928) Hughes, Andrew K.; Malget, John M.; Goeta, Andres E.
• A new metal–metal bonded diruthenium(II,III) compound bridged by the dianionic tridentate ligand N-(2-pyridyl)-2-oxy-5-chlorobenzylaminate (5-Clsalpy2−) (pp. 1929-1930) Miyasaka, Hitoshi; Kachi-Terajima, Chihiro; Ishii, Tomohiko; Yamashita, Masahiro
• Synthesis, structure and characterisation of Ln5O(OPri)13 with Ln = Nd, Gd or Er (pp. 1931-1938) Kritikos, Mikael; Moustiakimov, Marat; Wijk, Maria; Westin, Gunnar
• Complexation of Eu(III) with alkyl-substituted malonamides in acetonitrile (pp. 1939-1944) Rao, Linfeng; Zanonato, PierLuigi; Di Bernardo, Plinio; Bismondo, Arturo
• Acetylacetonatodifluorooxometalates of vanadium and molybdenum: syntheses and crystal structures (pp. 1945-1947) Stasch, Andreas; Schormann, Mark; Prust, Jörg; Roesky, Herbert W.; Schmidt, Hans-Georg; Noltemeyer, Mathias
• Indole-based mono- and poly-nuclear acyclic chelating systems: syntheses and selected transition metal complexes Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: rotatable 3-D crystal structure diagram in CHIME format; analytical and physical data for 3–10. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b101350p/ (pp. 1948-1958) Bowyer, Paul K.; Black, David StC.; Craig, Donald C.; Rae, A. David; Willis, Anthony C.
• Polypyrazolylmethane complexes of ruthenium Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: selected bond lengths and angles for complexes 3a and 6, NMR data for complexes 3–5. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b103939n/ (pp. 1959-1965) Field, Leslie D.; Messerle, Barbara A.; Soler, Linnea; Buys, Irmi E.; Hambley, Trevor W.
• Dinuclear double helicates with a twist: synthesis, structure and supramolecular entanglement in [M2L2] metallo-helices {M = Co(II), Cu(II), H2L = bis(N-salicylidene-4,4′-diaminodiphenyl)methane} Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: selected distances and angles for π⋯π and CH⋯π interactions in 1 and 2. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b102028p/ (pp. 1966-1970) Kruger, Paul E.; Martin, Noreen; Nieuwenhuyzen, Mark
• Reductive coupling of benzyl bromide catalyzed by a novel dicobalt complex having two salen units Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: 1H NMR spectrum of ligand L and assignments; UV-VIS spectra of [CoII2L] and [CoI2L]; ESR spectrum for the spin trapping. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b0/b010022f/ (pp. 1971-1974) Shimakoshi, Hisashi; Ninomiya, Wataru; Hisaeda, Yoshio
• Importance of the chromophore orientation to the ligand-to-metal energy transfer in lanthanide complexes with pendant-arm fitted cyclen derivatives Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: selected bond lengths and angles, intermolecular hydrogen bonds in [Eu(L2)(H2O)]3+, excitation, emission and NMR spectra. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b101312m/ (pp. 1975-1985) Zucchi, Gaël; Scopelliti, Rosario; Bünzli, Jean-Claude G.
• A combinatorial-like probe on the reactivity of the {Pt2S2} core of Pt2(PPh3)4(μ-S)2 by electrospray mass spectrometry. Synthesis and structures of novel heterometallic sulfide aggregates of gold(III), mercury(II), and tin(IV) with platinum(II) (pp. 1986-2002) Audi Fong, S.-W.; Teck Yap, Woon; Vittal, Jagadese J.; Hor, T. S. Andy; Henderson, William; Oliver, Allen G.; Rickard, Clifton E. F.
• Chemical heterogeneity in phosphosilicate gels by NMR magnetisation exchange (pp. 2003-2008) Clayden, Nigel J.; Esposito, Serena; Aronne, Antonio
• Hydrothermal syntheses and structures of three one-dimensional heteropolytungstates formed by Dawson or Keggin cluster units (pp. 2009-2014) Yan, Bangbo; Xu, Yan; Bu, Xianhui; Goh, Ngoh K.; Chia, Lian S.; Stucky, Galen D.
• Ligand effects on the structures of Rh6(CO)15L clustersElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: synthesis conditions, IR data, crystal data, bond lengths and angles, ORTEP views of the clusters. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b0/b010109p/ (pp. 2015-2019) Farrar, David H.; Grachova, Elena V.; Lough, Alan; Patirana, Charles; Poë, Anthony J.; Tunik, Sergey P.
• Studies of the alkylation of niobium and tantalum halides containing 2,6-diarylphenoxide ancillary ligation (pp. 2020-2031`) Schweiger, Scott W.; Salberg, Michelle M.; Pulvirenti, April L.; Freeman, Emily E.; Fanwick, Phillip E.; Rothwell, Ian P.
• The synthesis, structure, magnetic and Mössbauer spectral properties of an Fe–Zr carboxylate–alkoxide derivative containing an {Fe2Zr2(μ3-O)2} core (pp. 2032-2041) Ammala, Paul S.; Cashion, John D.; Kepert, Christopher M.; Murray, Keith S.; Moubaraki, Boujemaa; Spiccia, Leone; West, Bruce O.
• N–N Bridged dinuclear complexes with Mn(ii), Ni(ii), Cu(ii), Zn(ii) and Cd(ii); examples with antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic coupling (pp. 2042-2048) Xu, Zhiqiang; Thompson, Laurence K.; Black, Daniel A.; Ralph, Corbin; Miller, David O.; Leech, Michael A.; Howard, Judith A. K.
• Syntheses and structures of three two-dimensional silver(I)–hexamethylenetetramine co-ordination polymers with new topological motifs (pp. 2049-2053) Zheng, Shao-Liang; Tong, Ming-Liang; Zhu, Hai-Liang; Fang, Yue; Chen, Xiao-Ming

Issue: 14

• Main group element chemistry at the millennium (pp. 2055-2066) Greenwood, Norman N.
• Rhodium catalyzed asymmetric hydroformylation of vinylarenes with a diphosphite ligand forming a large chelating ringElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: experimental details, NMR data for 1 and 5 and NMR spectra of 3, 4 and 5. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b105208j/ (pp. 2067-2068) Freixa, Zoraida; Carles Bayón, J.
• The unique dual role of zinc atoms in a mixed zinc–vanadium phosphate [Zn(phen)Zn(VO)(PO4)2] (pp. 2069-2070) Zhang, Xian-Ming; Tong, Ming-Liang; Feng, Shou-Hua; Chen, Xiao-Ming
• A Cu(I) coordination polymer employing a nonsteroidal aromatase inhibitor letrozole as a building blockElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: a 3-D microporous perspective view of 1. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b104880p/ (pp. 2071-2073) Yuan, Rong-Xin; Xiong, Ren-Gen; Abrahams, Brendan F.; Lee, Gene-Hsiang; Peng, Shie-Ming; Che, Chi-Ming; You, Xiao-Zeng
• Chalcogenide-bridged ditungsten (M–M) complexes: an experimental and theoretical study of the electronic structure and bonding in W2(μ-E)(μ-OCH2tBu)2(OCH2tBu)6, where E = O, S, Se or TeElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: selected bond distances and angles for the title compounds and ground state DFT vertical excitation energies for W2(μ-E)(μ-OCH3)2(OCH3)6 (E = O, S, Se or Te). See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b101346g/ (pp. 2074-2082) Bollinger, John C.; Chisholm, Malcolm H.; Click, Damon R.; Folting, Kirsten; Hadad, Christopher M.; Tiedtke, Darin B.; Wilson, Paul J.
• The effects of distal ligand substitution on the copper(II)/bis-(2,6-dipyrazol-1-ylpyridine) centreNon-SI unit employed: 1 G = 10−4 T. (pp. 2083-2088) Solanki, Nayan K.; Leech, Michael A.; McInnes, Eric J. L.; Zhao, Jing P.; Mabbs, Frank E.; Feeder, Neil; Howard, Judith A. K.; Davies, John E.; Rawson, Jeremy M.; Halcrow, Malcolm A.
• Synthesis, characterization and reactivity of linear-type S-bridged trinuclear complexes containing vanadium(III) ion. Crystal structures of [VIII{M(aet)3}2](ClO4)3 (M = RhIII, IrIII; aet = 2-aminoethanethiolate) Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Fig. S1 Absorption spectral change of ΔΛ-[V{Rh(aet)3}2]3+ (1a) upon addition of Co(II); the curves show the spectra measured at 5 min intervals. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b101965l/ (pp. 2089-2094) Miyashita, Yoshitaro; Hamajima, Masato; Yamada, Yasunori; Fujisawa, Kiyoshi; Okamoto, Ken-ichi
• The Mayer bond order as a tool in inorganic chemistry Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: calculated structures of X′XO2, X′OXO, XO2, X′OX, X′XO and XO. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b102094n/ (pp. 2095-2108) Bridgeman, Adam J.; Cavigliasso, Germán; Ireland, Luke R.; Rothery, Joanne
• Elucidation of the mechanism of carboxy ester cleavage promoted by a Cu(ii) alkoxide complex of a tripodal ligand (N3OX) (pp. 2109-2115) Xia, Jiang; Li, Shu-an; Shi, Yan-bo; Yu, Kai-bei; Tang, Wen-xia
• Synthesis and kinetic behaviour of lanthanide(III) complexes with the mixed pendant-arm macrocyclic ligand 1,7-bis(carboxymethyl)-4,10-bis(1-methylimidazol-2-ylmethyl)-1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecaneElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: 13C{1H} spectrum of the [LaL]+ cation at 278 K in D2O, 13C{1H} spectrum of the [LuL]+ cation at 272 K in D2O and Eyring plot for the ring inversion of the [LaL]+ cation in D2O. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b101874o/ (pp. 2116-2120) Mani, Fabrizio; Morassi, Roberto; Stoppioni, Piero; Vacca, Alberto
• Structural studies of some mono- and bi-nuclear heteroleptic trispyrazolyborate complexes containing eight-co-oordinated europium and gadoliniumElectronic Supplementary Information (ESI) available: co-ordination polyhedra for complexes 2, 3, 4 and 5. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b100896j/ (pp. 2121-2126) Lawrence, Royston G.; Hamor, Thomas A.; Jones, Christopher J.; Paxton, Keith; Rowley, Natalie M.
• Synthesis, structure and magnetic properties of a novel octairon(III) citrate complexElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: intermolecular distances less than 3.30 Å involving the non-hydrogen atoms. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b101865p/ (pp. 2127-2131) Gautier-Luneau, Isabelle; Fouquard, Christophe; Merle, Claire; Pierre, Jean-Louis; Luneau, Dominique
• Some platinum(II) complexes containing bis(diphenylphosphino)acetylene PPh2CCPPh2: synthesis, characterisation and crystal structures Dedicated to Professor Rafael Usón on the occasion of his 75th birthday. (pp. 2132-2140) Falvello, Larry R.; Forniés, Juan; Gómez, Julio; Lalinde, Elena; Martín, Antonio; Martínez, Francisco; Moreno, M. Teresa
• Oligomeric structures of the crystalline dimethylamine adducts Me2(H)N·MH3 (M = Al or Ga) and the dimethylamido derivative [Me2NGaH2]3 (pp. 2141-2147) Tang, Christina Y.; Coxall, Robert A.; Downs, Anthony J.; Greene, Tim M.; Parsons, Simon
• An accuracy assessment of the refinement of partial metal disorder in solid solutions of Al(acac)3 and Cr(acac)3 (pp. 2148-2147) Bott, Simon G.; Fahlman, Bradley D.; Pierson, Milton L.; Barron, Andrew R.
• Complexes of EDTA in aqueous solutions. Structural aspects from a 13C NMR relaxation study (pp. 2153-2156) El Alaoui El Abdallaoui, H.; Champmartin, D.; Rubini, P.
• Diastereomeric discrimination in 1,4,7-tris((S )-2-hydroxypropyl)-1,4,7-triazacyclononane and its lithium(I), sodium(I) and zinc(II) complexes (pp. 2157-2163) Weeks, Jennifer M.; Buntine, Mark A.; Lincoln, Stephen F.; Tiekink, Edward R. T.; Wainwright, Kevin P.
• Solubility and Raman spectra of Ta(V) in LiF–NaF–KF–Na2O melts (pp. 2164-2172) Vik, Aasmund Fahre; Dracopoulos, Vassilis; Papatheodorou, George N.; Østvold, Terje
• Formation of Group 14 and 15 heteroatom derivatives of trinuclear [M3Se4(H2O)9]4+ (M = Mo, W) and the decreased reactivity of [W3S4(H2O)9]4+ (pp. 2173-2178) Hernandez-Molina, Rita; Elsegood, Mark R. J.; Clegg, William; Sykes, A. G.
• Reactivity of nitrido-carbonyl clusters: synthesis and solid state structure of [Fe5MnN(CO)16]2− and [Fe6N(CO)14NO]2−; oxidation of a cluster-coordinated nitride (pp. 2179-2183) Pergola, Roberto Della; Garlaschelli, Luigi; Manassero, Mario; Sansoni, Mirella; Strumolo, Donatella; de Biani, Fabrizia Fabrizi; Zanello, Piero
• Nucleophilic addition reactions on the electron-deficient cluster dication [H4Ru4(C6H6)4]2+: synthesis and structural characterisation of the water-soluble cluster cations [H3Ru4(C6H6)4(CO)]+ and [H3Ru4(C6H6)4(OH)]2+Dedicated to Professor Gerhard E. Herberich on the occasion of his 65th birthday. (pp. 2184-2187) Chérioux, Frédéric; Maisse-François, Aline; Neels, Antonia; Stoeckli-Evans, Helen; Süss-Fink, Georg
• Approaches towards the enantioselective recognition of anionic guest species using chiral receptors based on rhenium(i) and ruthenium(ii) with amide bipyridine ligands (pp. 2188-2198) Uppadine, Lindsay H.; Keene, F. Richard; Beer, Paul D.
• Supramolecular motifs in s-block metal bound sulfonated monoazo dyes (pp. 2199-2205) Kennedy, Alan R.; Hughes, Mhairi P.; Monaghan, Maureen L.; Staunton, Edward; Teat, Simon J.; Smith, W. Ewen
• Adsorption and separation of cations on chemically modified silica gel synthesised via the sol–gel process (pp. 2206-2209) Prado, Alexandre G. S.; Arakaki, Luiza N. H.; Airoldi, Claudio
• Mono- and bis-(iminophosphoranyl)methane titanium complexes (pp. 2210-2214) Kamalesh Babu, Ruppa P.; McDonald, Robert; Cavell, Ronald G.

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• Polymerization of lactide and related cyclic esters by discrete metal complexes (pp. 2215-2224) O'Keefe, Brendan J.; Hillmyer, Marc A.; Tolman, William B.
• Diastereoselective C–H bond activation of diisopropylamine at a hydridotris(pyrazolyl)borato rhodium fragment (pp. 2225-2227) Teuma, Emmanuelle; Malbosc, François; Pons, Vincent; Serra-Le Berre, Carole; Jaud, Joël; Etienne, Michel; Kalck, Philippe
• Folding of a poly(oxyethylene) chain as probed by photoinduced energy transfer between Ru– and Os–polypyridine termini (pp. 2228-2231) Pope, Simon J. A.; Rice, Craig R.; Ward, Michael D.; Morales, Angeles Farran; Accorsi, Gianluca; Armaroli, Nicola; Barigelletti, Francesco
• Structural, spectroscopic and electrochemical studies of nickel(II) “sandwich” complexes with ligands featuring tethered 1,4,7-triazacyclononane macrocyclesElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: representative cyclic voltammograms for the mononuclear complex 2 and binuclear complex 4. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b101766g/ (pp. 2232-2238) Graham, Bim; Spiccia, Leone; Bond, Alan M.; Hearn, Milton T. W.; Kepert, Christopher M.
• Anion templated synthesis of Ni/Pd containing metalla-macrocycles (pp. 2239-2244) Cheng, San-Ting; Doxiadi, Eleni; Vilar, Ramón; White, Andrew J. P.; Williams, David J.
• Synthesis and characterization of mixed-ligand oxorhenium(V) complexes with new [(PNO/S)(S)] donor atom sets (pp. 2245-2250) Correia, João D. G.; Domingos, Ângela; Santos, Isabel; Spies, Hartmut
• A reinvestigation of compound CpMo(PMe3)2(CH3)2: alkylation by single electron transfer and radical addition? (pp. 2251-2257) Grognec, Erwan Le; Poli, Rinaldo; Richard, Philippe
• Supramolecular metal helicate structures with incomplete metal ion coordination (pp. 2258-2262) Thompson, Laurence K.; Matthews, Craig J.; Zhao, Liang; Wilson, Claire; Leech, Michael A.; Howard, Judith A. K.
• Synthesis of isomeric B-methylated tantalum carboranes, (Me2N)3TaC2B9H10MeElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: rotatable 3-D molecular structure diagram of 8 in CHIME format. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b103353k/ (pp. 2263-2269) Fox, Mark A.; Howard, Judith A. K.; Hughes, Andrew K.; Malget, John M.; Yufit, Dimitrii S.
• Water, water, everywhere. Synthesis and structures of perfluoroalkyl rhodium and iridium(III) compounds containing water ligandsSee ref. 1. (pp. 2270-2278) Hughes, Russell P.; Lindner, Danielle C.; Smith, Jeremy M.; Zhang, Donghui; Incarvito, Christopher D.; Lam, Kin-Chung; Liable-Sands, Louise M.; Sommer, Roger D.; Rheingold, Arnold L.
• Synthesis of chelate complexes and the dichalcogen derivatives of the unsymmetrical diphosphine ligand Ph2PNHC6H4PPh2. Molecular structure of [PtCl2(Ph2PNHC6H4PPh2)]·0.75dmso·0.75CHCl3 (pp. 2279-2287) Aucott, Stephen M.; Slawin, Alexandra M. Z.; Woollins, J. Derek
• Electron transfer reaction between cytochrome c and trisoxalatocobalt(III)Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Table S1 summarizing all kinetic data. Figs. S1–S3 reporting spectral changes observed during the reaction and rate constants as a function of pH. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b101366l/ (pp. 2288-2292) Macyk, Joanna; Eldik, Rudi van
• Diruthenium complexes with hydrotris(1-pyrazolyl)borate face-capping ligands involving {Ru2(μ-O or μ-OH)(μ-carboxylato)2} cores Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: X-ray absorption spectra of 1a, 2a, 3a, 1b, 2b, 3b, 4b; theoretical curve fitting results of 1a, 2a, 3a, 1b, 2b, 3b, 4b; raw EXAFS of 1a, 2a, 3a, 1b, 2b, 3b, 4b; 1H–1H COSY spectra of 2a, 2b. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b101315g/ (pp. 2293-2302) Tanase, Tomoaki; Takeshita, Nao; Inoue, Chiharu; Kato, Merii; Yano, Shigenobu; Sato, Kiyoshi
• Synthesis of a new cage ligand, SarAr, and its complexation with selected transition metal ions for potential use in radioimagingAbbreviations. Because the IUPAC names for the cage ligands are long and complicated, those ligands described in this paper have been abbreviated as follows: 3,6,10,13,16,19-hexaazabicyclo[6.6.6]eicosane-1,8-diamine (diamsar); 1-N-(4-nitrobenzyl)-3,6,10,13,16,19-hexaazabicyclo[6.6.6]eicosane-1,8-diamine (nitrobenzyldiamsar), 1-N-(4-aminobenzyl)-3,6,10,13,16,19-hexaazabicyclo[6.6.6]eicosane-1,8-diamine (SarAr) and 3,6,10,13,16,19-hexaazabicyclo[6.6.6]eicosane (sar). Complexes of these ligands will be denoted as M[(ligand)]n+, e.g. [Cu(sar)]2+. (pp. 2303-2309) Di Bartolo, Nadine M.; Sargeson, Alan M.; Donlevy, Therese M.; Smith, Suzanne V.
• Complexes of a bis(tetradentate) compartmental pyrazolate ligand: solution studies and solid state structures (pp. 2310-2315) Siegfried, Liselotte; Kaden, Thomas A.; Meyer, Franc; Kircher, Peter; Pritzkow, Hans
• Synthesis, structure and hydroformylation activity of monomer rhodium and iridium pyrimidine thiolate complexes (pp. 2316-2324) Rojas, Sergio; Fierro, José Luis García; Fandos, Rosa; Rodríguez, Ana; Terreros, Pilar

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• Selective signalling of molybdate by a siderophore derivativeElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: synthesis and characterisation data for 1–3; emission spectrum for 1 in the presence of varying amounts of Fe(iii) and molybdate. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b104970b/ (pp. 2327-2329) Jedner, Stephanie B.; James, Richard; Perutz, Robin N.; Duhme-Klair, Anne-K.
• Synthesis and reactivity of arylgold(III) complexes from aromatic hydrocarbons via C–H bond activation (pp. 2330-2334) Fuchita, Yoshio; Utsunomiya, Yoshimichi; Yasutake, Mikio
• Hydrothermal syntheses, structures and properties of terephthalate-bridged polymeric complexes with zig-zag chain and channel structures (pp. 2335-2340) Sun, Daofeng; Cao, Rong; Liang, Yucang; Shi, Qian; Su, Weiping; Hong, Maochun
• Reactions of [RuCl2(NO)(terpy)]+ (terpy = 2,2′ : 6′,2″-terpyridine) with mono anions such as NO2−, Br− and N3−, and structural studies on terpyridineruthenium having a nitrosyl ligand (pp. 2341-2345) Hirano, Toshiyuki; Ueda, Koji; Mukaida, Masao; Nagao, Hirotaka; Oi, Takao
• Synthesis, crystal structures, spectroscopic and electrochemical properties of homologous series of copper(II) complexes of Schiff bases derived from cycloalkylamines (pp. 2346-2352) Aguilar-Martínez, Martha; Saloma-Aguilar, Ricardo; Macías-Ruvalcaba, Norma; Cetina-Rosado, Raúl; Navarrete-Vázquez, Agustina; Gómez-Vidales, Virginia; Zentella-Dehesa, Arturo; Toscano, Rubén A.; Hernández-Ortega, Simón; Fernández-G., Juan M.
• Backward synthesis of rhenium(I) γ-hydroxyvinylidene and γ-methoxyvinylidene complexes and their conversion to the allenylidene [Re{CCCPh2}(CO)2(MeC(CH2PPh2)3)](OSO2CF3) (pp. 2353-2361) Mantovani, Nicoletta; Marvelli, Lorenza; Rossi, Roberto; Bianchini, Claudio; Rios, Isaac de los; Romerosa, Antonio; Peruzzini, Maurizio
• Acetylides of cycloplatinated ferrocenylamines; synthesis and redox chemistryElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: rotatable 3-D crystal structure diagram in CHIME format. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b101776o/ (pp. 2362-2369) McAdam, C. John; Blackie, Evan J.; Morgan, Joy L.; Mole, Sarah A.; Robinson, Brian H.; Simpson, Jim
• A novel supramolecular synthon for H-bonded coordination networks: syntheses and structures of extended 2-dimensional cadmium(II) arenedisulfonates (pp. 2370-2375) Cai, Jiwen; Chen, Cai-Hong; Feng, Xiao-Long; Liao, Cheng-Zhu; Chen, Xiao-Ming
• Formation kinetics of pendant arm polyamine macrocycles with copper(II)Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: initially fitted values for k1,obsd and k2,obsd and buffer concentration dependence of log(k1,obsd) and log(k2,obsd). See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b102845f/ (pp. 2376-2382) Lye, Peter G.; Lawrance, Geoffrey A.; Maeder, Marcel
• Ionic columnar metallomesogens formed by three-coordinated copper(I) complexes (pp. 2383-2387) Lin, Hon-Da; Lai, Chung K.
• Macrocyclic ligand design. A synthetic, solvent extraction, computational and NMR study of the effect of cryptand flexibility on sodium ion affinityElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: tables of 1H and 13C NMR induced chemical shifts. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b102585f/ (pp. 2388-2397) Adam, Kenneth R.; Atkinson, Ian M.; Kim, Jeong; Lindoy, Leonard F.; Matthews, Owen A.; Meehan, George V.; Raciti, Fiona; Skelton, Brian W.; Svenstrup, Niels; White, Allan H.
• Unexpected formation of gallium–gallium single bonds by irradiation of the hydride [(Me3C)2GaH]3 (pp. 2398-2400) Uhl, Werner; Cuypers, Lars; Geiseler, Gertraud; Harms, Klaus; Neumüller, Bernhard
• The isolation and chemistry of niobium and tantalum dimethylamides containing mono- and di-aryloxide ancillary ligands (pp. 2401-2408) Schweiger, Scott W.; Tillison, Dana L.; Thorn, Matt G.; Fanwick, Phillip E.; Rothwell, Ian P.
• The reactions of lithium trimethysilylmethyls with isocyanides; structures and reactions of the derived lithium 1-azaallyls, β-diketiminates and a 1-azabuta-1,3-dienyl-3-amide (pp. 2409-2416) Hitchcock, Peter B.; Lappert, Michael F.; Layh, Marcus
• NMR study on the coordination of dibenzylideneacetone to chiral palladium(0) units. Fluxional behaviour including an intramolecular double bond exchangeThis paper is dedicated to Prof. Rafael Usón on the occasion of his 75th birthday. (pp. 2417-2424) Jalón, Félix A.; Manzano, Blanca R.; Gómez-de la Torre, Felipe; López-Agenjo, Ana M.; Rodríguez, Ana M.; Weissensteiner, Walter; Sturm, Thomas; Mahía, José; Maestro, Miguel
• Mechanistic aspects of the hydrolysis and condensation of titanium alkoxides complexed by tripodal ligandsElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Partial charge calculations and spectroscopic data of reagents. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b103398k/ (pp. 2425-2428) Weymann-Schildknetch, Sandrine; Henry, Marc
• Self-assembly of silver(I) polymers with single strand double-helical structures containing the ligand O,O′-bis(8-quinolyl)-1,8-dioxaoctane (pp. 2429-2434) Cai, Yue-Peng; Zhang, Hua-Xin; Xu, An-Wu; Su, Cheng-Yong; Chen, Chun-Long; Liu, Han-Qin; Zhang, Li; Kang, Bei-Sheng
• Letter: Comment on the intensities of inelastic neutron scattering spectra (pp. 2435-2436) Stride, John A.

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• Alkane C–H activation and functionalization with homogeneous transition metal catalysts: a century of progress—a new millennium in prospect (pp. 2437-2450) Crabtree, Robert H.
• Synthesis and characterisation of the first carbene–thallium complexes: molecular structure of [TlCl3{CN(Mes)C2H2N(Mes)}], Mes = C6H2Me3-2,4,6Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: synthetic details and spectroscopic data for 2 and 3. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b105322c/ (pp. 2451-2452) Cole, Marcus L.; Davies, Aaron J.; Jones, Cameron
• An unprecedented six-fold anion-type chiral diamondoid-like eight-coordinate Cd(II) coordination polymer with a second-order nonlinear optical effect (pp. 2453-2455) Chen, Zhen-Feng; Xiong, Ren-Gen; Abrahams, Brendan F.; You, Xiao-Zeng; Che, Chi-Ming
• Reaction of trimethylaluminium with main group hydroxides: a non-hydrolysis route to methylalumoxaneElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: full experimental details and listings of spectral data. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b104578b/ (pp. 2456-2458) Obrey, Stephen J.; Barron, Andrew R.
• (CN3H6)2·Zn(HPO3)2: An open-framework zincophosphite built up from polyhedral 12-rings (pp. 2459-2461) Harrison, William T. A.; Phillips, Mark L. F.; Nenoff, Tina M.
• Preparation and characterization of volatile alkaline-earth metal complexes with multiply coordinated aminoalkoxide ligands (pp. 2462-2466) Chi, Yun; Ranjan, Sudhir; Chou, Tsung-Yi; Liu, Chao-Shiuan; Peng, Shie-Ming; Lee, Gene-Hsiang
• Thermodynamic and structural characterisation of the complexes formed in the reaction of [Pd(en)(H2O)2]2+ and [Pd(pic)(H2O)2]2+ with N-alkyl nucleobases and N-acetyl amino acids (pp. 2467-2475) Nagy, Zoltán; Sóvágó, Imre
• Chemical transformations on diols anchored to a triosmium cluster (pp. 2476-2481) Lum, Mien Wei; Leong, Weng Kee
• Gold(I) organosulfinate and organosulfonate complexes (pp. 2482-2486) Römbke, Patric; Schier, Annette; Schmidbaur, Hubert
• Solid state polymerization causing transition to a ferromagnetic state. Crystal structures and magnetic properties of [Cu2(dpp)(H2O)(dmso)Cl4]·dmso and [Cu2(dpp)Cl4]n (dpp = 2,3-bis(2-pyridyl)pyrazine) (pp. 2487-2493) Grove, Hilde; Sletten, Jorunn; Julve, Miguel; Lloret, Francesc
• Structurally diverse organoamides and organoamido-, organometallic-lithium aggregates from reactions of N-(2-phenoxyphenyl)-N-(trimethylsilyl)amine with LiBunElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: table of selected bond distances and angles for L1H. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b103642b/ (pp. 2494-2501) Deacon, Glen B.; Forsyth, Craig M.; Scott, Natalie M.
• Syntheses of new ruthenium clusters containing sulfur, ynyl and diynyl ligands. Crystal structures of [Ru3(CO)9(μ-η2-SCCSiMe3)(μ3-η2-CCSiMe3)], [Ru4(CO)12(μ4-S)(μ-η2-CCSiMe3)2] and [Ru4(CO)9(μ-CO)2(μ4-S)(μ4-η2-C(SiMe3)C(CCSiMe3)] (pp. 2502-2507) Alcalde, M. I.; Carty, A. J.; Chi, Y.; Delgado, E.; Donnadieu, B.; Hernández, E.; Dallmann, K.; Sánchez-Nieves, J.
• Diphosphines based on an inherently chiral calix[4]arene scaffold: synthesis and use in enantioselective catalysis (pp. 2508-2517) Dieleman, Cedric; Steyer, Stéphane; Jeunesse, Catherine; Matt, Dominique
• Thioantimonate(III) anions acting as bridging ligands in neutral transition metal complexes: solvothermal synthesis and characterisation of the two novel compounds [Co(C6H18N4)]2Sb4S8 and [Co(C6H18N4)]2Sb2S5 containing [Sb4S8]4− and [Sb2S5]4− anions (pp. 2518-2522) Stähler, Ralph; Bensch, Wolfgang
• 1,1′-Bis(2-pyridylthio)ferrocene: a new ligand in gold and silver chemistry (pp. 2523-2529) Barranco, Eva M.; Crespo, Olga; Gimeno, M. Concepción; Jones, Peter G.; Laguna, Antonio; Sarroca, Cristina
• Anion influence on co-ordination polymers of Ag(I) with 1,4-dithiacyclohexaneElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: selected interatomic distances and angles for polymers 2, 3 and 7–9; diagrammatic representations of the Ag(i) centres in 1–4, 7 and 8. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b100635p/ (pp. 2530-2538) Brooks, Neil R.; Blake, Alexander J.; Champness, Neil R.; Cunningham, John W.; Hubberstey, Peter; Teat, Simon J.; Wilson, Claire; Schröder, Martin

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• Transition metal–carbon multiple bonds (pp. 2541-2550) Schrock, Richard R.
• Amidophosphine ligands as constructs for early–late heterobimetallic complexes; the formation of an anisotropic metallocageElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: full NMR and mass spectroscopic data. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b105698k/ (pp. 2551-2553) Mokuolu, Q. Folashade; Avent, Anthony G.; Hitchcock, Peter B.; Love, Jason B.
• Thiolate derivatives of titanium(iv) and tantalum(v) as precursors to metal sulfides (pp. 2554-2558) Carmalt, Claire J.; Dinnage, Christopher W.; Parkin, Ivan P.; White, Andrew J. P.; Williams, David J.
• Supramolecular architectures from the self-assembly of trans-oxamidato-bridged dicopper(II) building blocks and phenyldicarboxylates (pp. 2559-2566) Zhang, Hua-Xin; Kang, Bei-Sheng; Xu, An-Wu; Chen, Zhong-Ning; Zhou, Zhong-Yuan; Chan, Albert S. C.; Yu, Kai-Bei; Ren, Chen
• Solid state coordination chemistry of the copper(I)–cyano–organodiimine system. Two- and three-dimensional copper cyanide phases incorporating linear dipodal ligands (pp. 2567-2580) Chesnut, Douglas J.; Plewak, Dan; Zubieta, Jon
• Solid state coordination chemistry: ligand influences on the structures of one-dimensional copper(i) cyanide–organodiimine solids (pp. 2581-2586) Chesnut, Douglas J.; Kusnetzow, Anakarin; Birge, Robert; Zubieta, Jon
• A time-resolved infrared spectroscopic study of [M(SnR3)2(CO)2(α-diimine)] (M = Ru, Os; R = Ph, Me): evidence of charge redistribution in the lowest-excited state (pp. 2587-2592) Weinstein, Julia A.; Slageren, Joris van; Stufkens, Derk J.; Záliš, Stanislav; George, Michael W.
• Monomer–polymer forms of solid, unsolvated, 5-coordinate halodimethyl(2-diphenylphosphinylethyl)stannanes, XMe2SnCH2CH2P(O)Ph2 (X = Cl, Br or I). Effects of different recrystallisation media (pp. 2593-2600) Harrison, William T. A.; Howie, R. Alan; Munro, Craig M.; Wardell, James L.
• A dimolybdenum complex with an alkyne ligand parallel to the metal–metal bond: synthesis, structure and cluster formation reactions of [Mo2(μ-η1,η1-C2Ph2)(μ-S)(μ-SPri)2Cp2] (pp. 2601-2610) Adams, Harry; Morris, Michael J.; Mountford, Philip; Patel, Rushmiben; Spey, Sharon E.
• Preparation and properties of heterometallic cube derivatives Mo3M′S4 from [Mo3S4(H2O)9]4+ with M′ = Pt, Rh and Re, and [W3S4(H2O)9]4+ analogues (pp. 2611-2615) Sokolov, Maxim N.; Villagra, Diego; El-Hendawy, Ahmed M.; Kwak, Chee-Hun; Elsegood, Mark R. J.; Clegg, William; Sykes, A. Geoffrey
• A new FeIII(μ-OCH3)2(μ-OAc)FeIII complex containing phenolate and imidazole ligands as a structural model for the active site of non-heme diiron enzymesAbbreviations used: PAPs: purple acid phosphatases; kbPAP: kidney bean purple acid phosphatase; TRAP: tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase; MMOH: methane monooxygenase; TBAPF6: tetrabutylammonium hexafluorophosphate; HBHA: [(2-hydroxybenzyl)(2-(imidazol-2-yl)ethyl)]amine; HL3: bis(benzimidazol-2-ylmethyl)(2-hydroxyethyl)amine; TEMIMA: tris[(1-ethyl-4-methylimidazol-2-yl)methyl]amine; TMIMA: tris[(1-methylimidazol-2-yl)methyl]amine; L1: 1,2-bis(2,2′-bipyridyl-6-yl)ethane. (pp. 2616-2623) Scarpellini, Marciela; Neves, Ademir; Bortoluzzi, Adailton João; Vencato, Ivo; Drago, Valderes; Ortiz, Wilson Aires; Zucco, César
• The synthesis and X-ray crystal structure of [(4-ferrocenylphenylimido)]trichlorobis(triphenylphosphine)rhenium(v) and related ferrocenyl–rhenium(v) compoundsElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: spectroscopic details for starting materials; ReO bond distances in compounds of the type ReOCl3(PR3)2. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b102372c/ (pp. 2624-2633) Imrie, Christopher; Dilworth, Jonathan R.; Zheng, Yifan; Abrahams, Abubak'r; Gerber, Thomas I. A.; Nyamori, Vincent O.
• Luminescent rhenium(i) polypyridine complexes with an isothiocyanate moiety–versatile labelling reagents for biomolecules (pp. 2634-2640) Kam-Wing Lo, Kenneth; Chun-Ming Ng, Dominic; Hui, Wai-Ki; Cheung, Kung-Kai
• The isolation and purification of tris-2,2′-bipyridine complexes of ruthenium(ii) containing unsymmetrical ligands (pp. 2641-2648) Fletcher, Nicholas C.; Nieuwenhuyzen, Mark; Rainey, Sharon
• Electron withdrawing and electron donating effects of 4,4′-bipyridine substituents on ruthenium mono(bipyridine) complexes (pp. 2649-2654) Kinnunen, Toni-J. J.; Haukka, Matti; Nousiainen, Matti; Patrikka, Antti; Pakkanen, Tapani A.
• Lanthanide triple helical complexes with a chiral ligand derived from 2,6-pyridinedicarboxylic acidElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: further analysis of the structures Ln(ClO4)3·xH2O and [Ln(L4)3]3+. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b102728j/ (pp. 2655-2662) Muller, Gilles; Schmidt, Boris; Jiricek, Jan; Hopfgartner, Gérard; Riehl, James P.; Bünzli, Jean-Claude G.; Piguet, Claude
• Phosphate ester hydrolysis by yttrium(iii) complexes with Bis-Tris propane and Tris ligandsElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Tables of original titration data for five different combinations of total BTP and yttrium(iii) perchlorate concentrations and for three different combinations of total Tris and yttrium(iii) perchlorate concentrations; Tables of stability constants; Figs. illustrating fitting of the titration data to the model given in Scheme 2. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b103163p/ (pp. 2663-2670) Gómez-Tagle, Paola; Yatsimirsky, Anatoly K.
• Reactivity of phosphonodithioato NiII complexes: solution equilibria, solid state studies and theoretical calculations on the adduct formation with some pyridine derivativesElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: titration experimental details, UV-visible spectra and calculated data for the formation equilibria of adducts 7–10. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b100991p/ (pp. 2671-2677) Aragoni, M. Carla; Arca, Massimiliano; Demartin, Francesco; Devillanova, Francesco A.; Graiff, Claudia; Isaia, Francesco; Lippolis, Vito; Tiripicchio, Antonio; Verani, Gaetano
• Di-metallated platinum carbonyl complexes: platinum–platinum interactions in the solid state (pp. 2678-2682) Newman, Christopher P.; Cave, Gareth W. V.; Wong, Michael; Errington, William; Alcock, Nathaniel W.; Rourke, Jonathan P.
• Synthesis and characterization of chelate and bridging triazenide complexes of palladium and platinum. Stereoselective oxidative addition of chlorine or iodine to [NBu4][Pt(C6F5)2(η2-PhNNNPh)] (pp. 2683-2689) Ruiz, José; López, J. F. Javier; Rodríguez, Venancio; Pérez, José; Ramírez de Arellano, M. Carmen; López, Gregorio
• Stereoselective [2 + 3] cycloaddition of nitrones to platinum-bound organonitriles. First enantioselective synthesis of Δ4-1,2,4-oxadiazolinesElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: rotatable 3-D crystal structure diagram in CHIME format. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b102291c/ (pp. 2690-2697) Wagner, Gabriele; Haukka, Matti
• Multinuclear NMR studies of mixtures of aluminium and gallium trihalides in benzene (pp. 2698-2703) Černý, Zbyněk; Machác̆ek, Jiří; Fusek, Jiří; Čásenský, Bohuslav; Křīž, Otomar; Tuck, Dennis G.
• Gold molecular precursors and gold–silica interactions (pp. 2704-2709) Abis, Luigi; Armelao, Lidia; Belli Dell'Amico, Daniela; Calderazzo, Fausto; Garbassi, Fabio; Merigo, Alessandra; Quadrelli, Elsje Alessandra

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• Platinum binding to DNA: structural controls and consequences (pp. 2711-2718) Hambley, Trevor W.
• Mesoporous titania nanostructures thermally stabilized by doping with “sodium oxide”Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: complete synthetic details; powder X-ray diffraction patterns and DSC curves for mesoporous titanias. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b106649h/ (pp. 2719-2720) Li, Quanchang; Härter, Peter; Xue, Wen-Mei; Zuo, Jing-Lin; Herrmann, Wolfgang A.
• Synthesis of bulky, electron rich hemilabile phosphines and their application in the Suzuki coupling reaction of aryl chlorides (pp. 2721-2723) Clarke, Matthew L.; Cole-Hamilton, David J.; Woollins, J. Derek
• The preparation and coordination chemistry of phosphorus(iii) derivatives of dialkyl ureas and thioureas (pp. 2724-2730) Slawin, Alexandra M. Z.; Wainwright, Matthew; Woollins, J. Derek
• High-nuclearity palladium carbonyl trimethylphosphine clusters containing unprecedented face-condensed icosahedral-based transition-metal core geometries: proposed growth patterns from a centered Pd13 icosahedronDedicated to Professor Jack Lewis for his inspiring leadership and many seminal achievements in metal carbonyl cluster chemistry during his illustrious academic career at Cambridge University. (pp. 2731-2748) Tran, Nguyet T.; Kawano, Masaki; Dahl, Lawrence F.
• Coordination polymers and isomerism; a study using silver(i) and a π-stacked ligand (pp. 2749-2755) Caradoc-Davies, Paula L.; Hanton, Lyall R.; Henderson, William
• Monomeric and dimeric Re(i)(tricarbonyl)(8-quinolinato) complexes (pp. 2756-2761) Czerwieniec, Rafał; Kapturkiewicz, Andrzej; Anulewicz-Ostrowska, Romana; Nowacki, Jacek
• Homo- and hetero-metallic rhenium oxomethoxide complexes with a M4(μ-O)2(μ-OMe)4 planar core—a new family of metal alkoxides displaying a peculiar structural disorder. Preparation and X-ray single crystal study (pp. 2762-2768) Seisenbaeva, Gulaim A.; Shevelkov, Andrei V.; Tegenfeldt, Jörgen; Kloo, Lars; Drobot, Dmitrii V.; Kessler, Vadim G.
• Isomer formation in the binding of [PtCl2(cis-cyclohexane-1,3-diamine)] to oligonucleotides and the X-ray crystal structure of [PtCl2(cis-cyclohexane-1,3-diamine)]·dimethylformamideElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: figures showing HPLC chromatograms and NMR spectra. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b104502b/ (pp. 2769-2774) Cham, S. Tsuey; Diakos, Connie I.; Ellis, Leanne T.; Fenton, Ronald R.; Munk, Vivienne P.; Messerle, Barbara A.; Hambley, Trevor W.
• Supramolecular assembly of metalloporphyrins in crystals by axial coordination through amine ligands (pp. 2775-2782) Diskin-Posner, Yael; Patra, Goutam Kumar; Goldberg, Israel
• Linear chain complexes linked by hydrogen bonded O2H3− and O3H5− units: structural and magnetic comparison of trans-dihydroxo-, -diaqua-, and -aquahydroxo-chromium(iii) complexes (pp. 2783-2790) Goodson, Patricia A.; Glerup, Jørgen; Hodgson, Derek J.; Jensen, Nicolai B.; Michelsen, Kirsten
• Reactivity of the molybdenacarbaborane anion [2,2,2,2-(CO)4-closo-2,1-MoCB10H11]−: metal oxidation versus cage substitutionThe compounds described herein have molybdenum (or tungsten) atoms incorporated into closo-1-carba-2-metalladodecaborane frameworks, and several have exopolyhedral substitutents. It should be noted that these substituted compounds, although containing chiral centres, here occur as racemates. For a 7-(ligand)-substituted species, an 11-(ligand) notation is equally valid; and for 3,7- and 3,11-disubstituted molecules, 6,11- and 6,7-descriptors, respectively, would also be correct. In each case the former is used in formulae, according to IUPAC convention. Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: crystal data for 15. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b105158j/ (pp. 2791-2800) Du, Shaowu; Kautz, Jason A.; McGrath, Thomas D.; Stone, F. Gordon A.
• New linked macrocyclic systems. Interaction of palladium(ii) and platinum(ii) with tri-linked N2S2-donor macrocycles and their single-ring analogues (pp. 2801-2806) Atkinson, Ian M.; Chartres, Jy D.; Groth, Andrew M.; Lindoy, Leonard F.; Lowe, Mark P.; Meehan, George V.; Skelton, Brian W.; White, Allan H.
• Complexes of late transition metals containing the mixed donor ligands 2,6-(RSCH2)2C5H3N (R = Ph, Me): Crystal structures of [{Cu(2,6-(PhSCH2)2C5H3N)(μ-X)}2] (X = Cl, Br) and [Ni(2,6-(PhSCH2)2C5H3N)Br2] (pp. 2807-2812) Ball, Rachel J.; Genge, Anthony R. J.; Radford, Alison L.; Skelton, Brian W.; Tolhurst, Vicki-Anne; White, Allan H.
• Transition metal incorporation into seleno-bridged cubane type clusters of molybdenum and tungsten. X-Ray crystal structures of the first [Mo3CuSe4] derivativesElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: cyclic voltammograms for compounds 1–5. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b104262a/ (pp. 2813-2818) Llusar, Rosa; Uriel, Santiago; Vicent, Cristian
• Spectroelectrochemistry of potassium ethylxanthate, bis(ethylxanthato)nickel(ii) and tetraethylammonium tris(ethylxanthato)nickelate(ii)Part of this work was presented at the NATO ASI Conference, 15–26 June, 1996, Przesieka, Poland. (pp. 2819-2824) Dag, Ömer; Yaman, Seniz Özalp; Önal, Ahmet M.; Isci, Huseyin
• Heteroleptic tris-chelates of ruthenium(ii)-bipyridine-arylazoimidazoles: Synthesis, spectral characterisation and electrochemical properties. Single crystal X-ray structure of [(2,2′-bipyridine)-bis-{1-methyl-2-(p-tolylazo)imidazole}ruthenium(ii)] perchlorate (pp. 2825-2832) Byabartta, Prithwiraj; Dinda, Joydev; Santra, Prasanta Kumar; Sinha, Chittaranjan; Panneerselvam, Kaliyamoorthy; Liao, Fan-Ling; Lu, Tian-Huey
• Heterodimetallic copper(ii) compounds containing ferrocenecarboxylato(−1) and triamines as ligands (pp. 2833-2837) Costa, Ramon; López, Concepción; Molins, Elies; Espinosa, Enric; Pérez, José
• The crystallographic observation of molecular lithium oxide: synthesis and solid-state structure of [Me2AlN(2-C5H4N)Ph]2(O)Li2·2THFElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: modelled geometries of 4a–12 and tables of absolute and relative energies for 4a–12 and calculated bond lengths and angles. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b104388a/ (pp. 2838-2843) Armstrong, David R.; Davies, Robert P.; Linton, David J.; Snaith (the late), Ronald; Schooler, Paul; Wheatley, Andrew E. H.
• Titanium and zirconium complexes with sterically hindered aryl-substituted iminophosphoranato ligands (pp. 2844-2849) Said, Musa; Thornton-Pett, Mark; Bochmann, Manfred
• Complexing properties of [(glycylamino)methyl]phosphinic acids towards Co2+, Ni2+, Cu2+ and Zn2+ ions in aqueous solutions (pp. 2850-2857) Lukás̆, Michal; Kývala, Mojmír; Hermann, Petr; Lukes̆, Ivan; Sanna, Daniele; Micera, Giovanni
• The reaction of alkynes with triangulo-clusters [Pt3(μ-CO)3(PR3)3] (pp. 2858-2863) Ros, Renzo; Tassan, Augusto; Roulet, Raymond; Duprez, Virginie; Detti, Serena; Laurenczy, Gàbor; Schenk, Kurt
• Redistribution of terpy ligands—approaches to new dynamic combinatorial libraries (pp. 2864-2871) Constable, Edwin C.; Housecroft, Catherine E.; Kulke, Torsten; Lazzarini, Chiarra; Schofield, Emma R.; Zimmermann, Yves
• Synthesis and characterization of tri-titanium(iv)-1,2,3-substituted α-Keggin polyoxotungstates with heteroatoms P and Si. Crystal structure of the dimeric, Ti–O–Ti bridged anhydride form K10H2[α,α-P2W18Ti6O77]·17H2O and confirmation of dimeric forms in aqueous solution by ultracentrifugation molecular weight measurementsElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: further bond lengths and angles for compound 1. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b102942h/ (pp. 2872-2878) Nomiya, Kenji; Takahashi, Mizuto; Ohsawa, Katsunori; Widegren, Jason A.
• Spectroscopic and electron paramagnetic resonance behavior of trinuclear metallic clusters encapsulated in [Mn+3(H2O)x(BiW9O33)2](18−3n)− heteropolyanion (Mn+  = (VO)II, x  = 0 and Mn+  = CrIII, MnII, FeIII, CoII, NiII, CuII, x  = 3)Electronic supplementary information (ESl) available: IR data; X-band EPR spectra of the complexes 2, 3, 5, 7; estimation of the exchange constant from the linewidth of the HF-EPR spectra of the complex 3. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b104848c/ (pp. 2879-2887) Rusu, Dan; Crăciun, Cora; Barra, Anne-Laure; David, Leontin; Rusu, Mariana; Roşu, Cristina; Cozar, Onuc; Marcu, Gheorghe
• A unique open inorganic–organic framework with alternate hexa- and penta-coordinate cobalt(ii) sites. Synthesis, crystal structure and magnetic properties of [Co3(C4H4O4)2.5(OH)]n·0.5nH2O (pp. 2888-2890) Long, La-Sheng; Chen, Xiao-Ming; Tong, Ming-Liang; Sun, Zi-Guang; Ren, Yan-Ping; Huang, Rong-Bin; Zheng, Lan-Sun
• Synthesis and characterization of mono- and bi-metallic derivatives of Groups 4 and 5 with 2,5-dimethoxy-1,4-benzoquinone (pp. 2891-2898) Calderazzo, Fausto; Englert, Ulli; Pampaloni, Guido; Passarelli, Vincenzo
• Synthesis and structure of an aluminium 3-aminopropylphosphonate sulfate hydrate (pp. 2899-2902) Zakowsky, Nadja; Wheatley, Paul S.; Bull, Ivor; Attfield, Martin P.; Morris, Russell E.
• Surprising diversity of non-classical silicon–hydrogen interactions in half-sandwich complexes of Nb and Ta: M–H ⋯ Si–Cl interligand hypervalent interaction (IHI) versus stretched and unstretched β-Si–H⋯M agostic bondingElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: selected bond distances and angles and a view of the preliminary X-ray structure of 7. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b103362j/ (pp. 2903-2915) Nikonov, Georgii I.; Mountford, Philip; Ignatov, Stanislav K.; Green, Jennifer C.; Leech, Michael A.; Kuzmina, Lyudmila G.; Razuvaev, Alexei G.; Rees, Nicholas H.; Blake, Alexander J.; Howard, Judith A. K.; Lemenovskii, Dmitry A.
• Molecular structure of ButCl2SiSiCl2But in the gas phase by electron diffraction and ab initio calculations. Molecular structures of the compounds ButX2SiSiX2But (X = Cl, Br or I) by vibrational spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography and ab initio calculationsElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: tables of geometrical parameters and calculated and observed wavenumbers for ButX2SiSiX2But (X = Cl, Br, I). See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b103315h/ (pp. 2916-2925) Hinchley, Sarah L.; Smart, Bruce A.; Morrison, Carole; Robertson, Heather E.; Rankin, David W. H.; Coxall, Robert A.; Parsons, Simon; Zink, Robert; Siegl, Harald; Hassler, Karl; Mawhorter, Richard
• Preparation and characterisation of neutral double- and mono-alkynyl bridged diplatinum complexesElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: tables of NMR data for 1–16; variable temperature 1H and 19F NMR spectra for 7; molecular structure diagrams for 8·CH2Cl2 and the SS isomer of 13. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b104783n/ (pp. 2926-2936) Berenguer, Jesús R.; Forniés, Juan; Lalinde, Elena; Martín, Antonio; Serrano, Blanca
• Determination of the stability constants of mercury(ii) complexes of mixed donor macrobicyclic encapsulating ligandsElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: potentiometric competition titration plots and theoretical speciation plots for competition titrations of Hg2+, AMN3S3sar and [14]aneN4. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b103706b/ (pp. 2937-2942) Sharrad, Clint A.; Grøndahl, Lisbeth; Gahan, Lawrence R.
• Syntheses, structures, magnetic, and spectroscopic properties of cobalt(ii), nickel(ii) and zinc(ii) complexes containing 2-(6-methyl)pyridyl-substituted nitronyl and imino nitroxideElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: packing diagrams of complexes 1 and 2, UV-vis-NIR absorption spectra of complexes 1 and 2 together with those of NITmepy and IMmepy, solvent-dependence of UV-vis absorption and MCD spectra of 1 in a mixture of dichloromethane and acetonitrile, temperature-dependence of the anisotropic magnetic properties for complex 1Br. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b103647p/ (pp. 2943-2950) Yamamoto, Youhei; Suzuki, Takayoshi; Kaizaki, Sumio

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• Macrocyclic and polydentate thio- and seleno-ether ligand complexes of the p-block elements (pp. 2953-2960) Levason, William; Reid, Gillian
• A novel trinuclear cobalt complex comprising moieties derived from single and double C–S bond cleavage of diethyldithiocarbamate (pp. 2961-2962) Fan, Xiaoling; Cao, Rong; Hong, Maochun; Su, Weiping; Sun, Daofeng
• The syntheses and structures of two hexanuclear copper(ii) complexes with amino acidsElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: packing diagrams for 1 and 2. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b105383n/ (pp. 2963-2964) Hu, Shengmin; Du, Wenxin; Dai, Jingcao; Wu, Liming; Cui, Chuanpeng; Fu, Zhiyong; Wu, Xintao
• Linkage of heteronuclear rhodium–platinum clustersElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: detailed reaction procedures for [Rh8Pt2(CO)21(dppm)2] (1) and [Rh6Pt4(CO)16(dppm)3] (2). See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b108224h/ (pp. 2965-2967) Koshevoy, Igor O.; Tunik, Sergey P.; Jääskeläinen, Sirpa; Haukka, Matti; Pakkanen, Tapani A.
• The DNA binding of the ΔΔ-, ΔΛ- and ΛΛ-stereoisomers of [{Ru(Me2bpy)2}2(μ-bpm)]4+ (pp. 2968-2974) Foley, Fiona M.; Keene, F. Richard; Collins, J. Grant
• Fullerene C60 exhibiting a strong intermolecular interaction in a cocrystallite with C4 symmetrical cobalt tetrakis(di-tert-butylphenyl)porphyrin (pp. 2975-2980) Ishii, Tomohiko; Kanehama, Ryo; Aizawa, Naoko; Yamashita, Masahiro; Matsuzaka, Hiroyuki; Sugiura, Ken-ichi; Miyasaka, Hitoshi; Kodama, Takeshi; Kikuchi, Kouichi; Ikemoto, Isao; Tanaka, Hisaaki; Marumoto, Kazuhiro; Kuroda, Shin-Ichi
• A new family of phosphido-bridged dinuclear ruthenium carbonyl complexes: synthesis of [Ru2(CO)6{μ-P(C(CH)3O)2}(μ-η1,η2-C(CH)3O)] and its reactivity towards terminal alkynes (pp. 2981-2988) Wong, Wai-Yeung; Ting, Fai-Lung; Lam, Wai-Lim
• Hydrogen-transfer catalyzed by half-sandwich Ru(ii) aminophosphine complexesElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: experimental details and NMR data for 1c and 2c. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b104128m/ (pp. 2989-2995) Standfest-Hauser, Christina; Slugovc, Christian; Mereiter, Kurt; Schmid, Roland; Kirchner, Karl; Xiao, Li; Weissensteiner, Walter
• Principal component analysis of conformations in fused ring chelate complexes: conformer identification, stereochemistry, and interconversion pathwaysStructural systematics. Part 9.1 (pp. 2996-3009) Harris (née Garner), Stephanie E.; Pascual, Isabel; Orpen, A. Guy
• Magnetostructural characterisation of two M–NCO–bpa polymers (M = Co, Mn and bpa = 1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethane)Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: powder XRD data for compound 2. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b101192h/ (pp. 3010-3014) Hernández, Margarita L.; Urtiaga, M. Karmele; Barandika, M. Gotzone; Cortés, Roberto; Lezama, Luis; la Pinta, Noelia de; Arriortua, M. Isabel; Rojo, Teófilo
• Complexes of phosphine–phenolate ligands with the [ReO]3+ and [Re(HNNC5H4N)(NNC5H4N)]2+ cores (pp. 3015-3024) Kovacs, Michael S.; Hein, Peter; Sattarzadeh, Sherwin; Patrick, Brian O.; Emge, Thomas J.; Orvig, Chris
• Donor–acceptor complexes incorporating ferrocenes: spectroelectrochemical characterisation, quadratic hyperpolarisabilities and the effects of oxidising and reducing agents (pp. 3025-3038) Malaun, Michael; Kowallick, Ralph; McDonagh, Andrew M.; Marcaccio, Massimo; Paul, Rowena L.; Asselberghs, Inge; Clays, Koen; Persoons, André; Bildstein, Benno; Fiorini, Céline; Nunzi, Jean-Michel; Ward, Michael D.; McCleverty, Jon A.
• Pyridyl–thiazole multidentate ligands: metal-specific recognition of a combination of ligands from a mixture (pp. 3039-3044) Rice, Craig R.; Baylies, Christian J.; Harding, Lindsay P.; Jeffery, John C.; Paul, Rowena L.; Ward, Michael D.
• Divalent complexes of 3-hydroxy-4-methyl-2(3H)-thiazolethione with Co–Zn: synthesis, X-ray crystal structures and the structure-directing influence of C–H⋯S interactionsElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: lists of CSD refcodes retrieved from the database analyses and high-temperature PXRD profiles elucidating the solid-state structures of 3 and 4 following dehydration. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b104203n/ (pp. 3045-3051) Bond, Andrew D.; Jones, William
• Intramolecular photo-substitution in the inclusion compound of mono[6-deoxy-6-(2-butenedinitrile-2,3-dimercapto sodium salt)]–β-cyclodextrin with cyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl in DMF solution (pp. 3052-3055) Lu, Chang-Sheng; Zhang, Wen-Wei; Ren, Xiao-Ming; Hu, Chuan-Jiang; Zhu, Hui-Zhen; Meng, Qing-Jin
• Aggregation of a crown ether-based copper amphiphile as a mimic for the superstructure of hemocyanin (pp. 3056-3064) Klein Gebbink, Robertus J. M.; Sandee, Albertus J.; Peters, Frank G. A.; van der Gaast, Sjerry J.; Feiters, Martinus C.; Nolte, Roeland J. M.
• Tetrakis(3-cyanopyridine)diisothiocyanatonickel(ii) and its clathrates with EtOH and CH2Cl2: structures, thermal stabilities and enthalpies of guest releaseWerner clathrates. Part 15.10 Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: XRPD traces for 1–3 and for the product obtained on exposure of 1 to CH2Cl2 vapour; graphical representation of the Clausius–Clapeyron equation for the thermal decomposition of 2 and 3; rotatable 3-D crystal structure diagrams in CHIME format. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b105299n/ (pp. 3065-3068) Kilkenny, Mairi L.; Nassimbeni, Luigi R.
• Syntheses and crystal structures of binuclear gold(i), silver(i) and copper(i) complexes containing bulky pyridyl functionalised alkyl ligands (pp. 3069-3072) den Ancker, Tania R. van; Bhargava, Suresh K.; Mohr, Fabian; Papadopoulos, Stavroula; Raston, Colin L.; Skelton, Brian W.; White, Allan H.
• Syntheses, structural studies and solution properties of iron complexes of some amide-substituted calixarenes (pp. 3073-3077) Ogden, Mark I.; Skelton, Brian W.; White, Allan H.
• Chirality in coordination polymers: homo- vs. hetero-chiral strand construction (pp. 3078-3083) Donnelly, Paul S.; Harrowfield, Jack M.; Skelton, Brian W.; White, Allan H.
• Lanthanide triple-stranded helical complexes with a substituted 2,6-pyridinedicarboxylateElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: analytical, IR and luminescence data, contact and dipolar shifts, calculated Cartesian co-ordinate for the EuIII complex, plots of chemical shifts for protons H8, H9 versus the chemical shift of proton H2. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b104448f/ (pp. 3084-3091) Platas-Iglesias, Carlos; Piguet, Claude; André, Nicolas; Bünzli, Jean-Claude G.
• Synthesis, structure and near-infrared luminescence of neutral 3d–4f bi-metallic monoporphyrinate complexes (pp. 3092-3098) Wong, Wai-Kwok; Hou, Anxin; Guo, Jianping; He, Hongshan; Zhang, Lilu; Wong, Wai-Yeung; Li, King-Fai; Cheah, Kok-Wai; Xue, F.; Mak, Thomas C. W.
• Novel iron(ii) complexes with hexadentate nitrogen ligands obtained via intramolecular redox reactions (pp. 3099-3107) Ugalde-Saldívar, Víctor Manuel; Sosa-Torres, Martha Elena; Ortiz-Frade, Luis; Bernès, Sylvain; Höpfl, Herbert
• New molybdenum(v) analogues of Amavadin and their redox properties (pp. 3108-3114) Smith, Paul D.; Cooney, J. Jon A.; McInnes, Eric J. L.; Beddoes, Roy L.; Collison, David; Harben, Spencer M.; Helliwell, Madeleine; Mabbs, Frank E.; Mandel, Alexander; Powell, Annie K.; Garner, C. David
• Syntheses and solid-state structures of [{K(THF)2(PHTipp)K(THF)(μ-THF)(PHTipp)}x]2 and [Rb(THF)(PHTipp)]x (Tipp = 2,4,6-Pri3C6H2) (pp. 3115-3118) Frenzel, Christoph; Somoza Jr., Fernando; Blaurock, Steffen; Hey-Hawkins, Evamarie
• Dinuclear CuII and NiII complexes of 3-formylsalicylic acid oxime: cis/trans topology and extension of a cis-CuII2 complex to a pentanuclear CuIICuIIMnIICuIICuII complex (pp. 3119-3124) Ikeda, Kazuhide; Ohba, Masaaki; Ōkawa, Hisashi
• Thermo-Raman investigations on thermal decomposition of (NH4)6Mo7O24·4H2O (pp. 3125-3132) Murugan, Ramaswamy; Chang, Hua

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• Zwitterionic [2]rotaxanes utilising anionic transition metal stoppers (pp. 3135-3136) Davidson, Gregory J. E.; Loeb, Stephen J.; Parekh, Neal A.; Wisner, James A.
• Na+-Mediated aggregation of imino-carboxylate transition metal complexesElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: further crystallographic details. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b107873a/ (pp. 3137-3139) Doble, Dan M. J.; Blake, Alexander J.; Li, Wan-Sheung; Schröder, Martin
• Porous poly(D,L-lactide) and poly(D,L-lactide-co-glycolide) produced by thermal salt elimination from halogenocarboxylatesElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: detailed results of the combustion calorimetric experiments. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b104979h/ (pp. 3140-3148) Siedler, Michael; Kitchin, Simon J.; Harris, Kenneth D. M.; Lagoa, Ana L. C.; Diogo, Hermínio P.; Minas da Piedade, Manuel E.; Epple, Matthias
• Synthesis and crystal structure of selenocyanato bridged two dimensional supramolecular coordination compounds of cadmium(ii)Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Corey–Pauling–Koltun diagram of 2. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b101064f/ (pp. 3149-3153) Maji, Tapas Kumar; Sain, Saugata; Mostafa, Golam; Das, Debasis; Lu, Tian-Huey; Chaudhuri, Nirmalendu Ray
• Reactions of ruthenium cyclopropenyl complexes with trimethylsilyl azide (pp. 3154-3159) Chang, Ku-Hsien; Lin, Ying-Chih; Liu, Yi-Hong; Wang, Yu
• Structure of monomeric and dimeric molecules of erbium tribromide from gas-phase electron diffraction data (pp. 3160-3162) ZakharovOn leave from Ivanovo State University of Chemistry and Technology., Alexander V.; Giricheva, Nina I.; Vogt, Natalja; Shlykov, Sergey A.; Vogt, Jürgen; Girichev, Georgii V.
• Engineering of non-interpenetrating 3-D and 2-D networks and guest adsorption based on 4,4′-di(3-methyl)pyridyl sulfide copper(ii) complexes (pp. 3163-3168) Su, Xun-Cheng; Zhu, Shourong; Lin, Hua-Kuan; Leng, Xue-Bing; Chen, Yun-Ti
• Dimeric yttrium(iii) and neodymium(iii) macrocyclic complexes: potential catalysts for hydrolysis of double-stranded DNA (pp. 3169-3172) Bligh, S. W. Annie; Choi, Nick; Evagorou, Evagoras G.; McPartlin, Mary; White, Kenneth N.
• Solvent-dependent assembly of mixed-metal N,N′-diphenylbenzamidinate oxide and alkoxide complexes (pp. 3173-3178) Bond, Andrew D.; Linton, David J.; Schooler, Paul; Wheatley, Andrew E. H.
• Synthesis and structures of crystalline dilithium diamides and aminolithium amides derived from N,N′-disubstituted 1,2-diaminobenzenes or 1,8-diaminonaphthalene (pp. 3179-3188) Danièle, Stephane; Drost, Christian; Gehrhus, Barbara; Hawkins, Stephen M.; Hitchcock, Peter B.; Lappert, Michael F.; Merle, Philippe G.; Bott, Simon G.
• Voltammetric, EPR and UV-VIS-NIR spectroscopic studies associated with the characterisation of electrochemically generated tris(dithiocarbamato)cobalt(iv) complexes in dichloromethaneElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: figures containing additional voltammetric, UV-VIS-NIR and EPR spectroscopic data. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b104636p/ (pp. 3189-3195) Webster, Richard D.; Heath, Graham A.; Bond, Alan M.
• Polynuclear molybdenum and tungsten complexes of 3-hydroxypicolinic acid and the crystal structures of (nBu4N)2[Mo4O12(picOH)2] and (nHex4N)2[Mo2O6(picOH)2] (pp. 3196-3201) Quintal, Susana M. O.; Nogueira, Helena I. S.; Carapuça, Helena M.; Félix, Vitor; Drew, Michael G. B.
• A new heterometalate anion [GdMo6(CH3CHOCOO)6O15]3− with a nine-coordinate gadolinium encapsulated at the center (pp. 3202-3204) Wu, Chuan-De; Lu, Can-Zhong; Liu, Jia-Cheng; Zhuang, Hong-Hui; Huang, Jin-Shun
• A p-tert-butylcalix[4]arene functionalised at its lower rim with ether-amide pendant arms acts as an inorganic–organic receptor: structural and photophysical properties of its lanthanide complexesElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: 1H- and 13C-NMR spectra of A4bL4 and its LuIII complex, excitation spectrum of the EuIII complex. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b105513p/ (pp. 3205-3213) Ramírez, Flor de Maria; Charbonnière, Loïc; Muller, Gilles; Scopelliti, Rosario; Bünzli, Jean-Claude G.
• Crystal structure of α-Mg2V2O7 from synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction and characterization by 51V MAS NMR spectroscopy (pp. 3214-3218) Nielsen, Ulla Gro; Jakobsen, Hans J.; Skibsted, Jørgen; Norby, Poul
• The interaction of 2-arsa- and 2-stiba-1,3-dionato lithium complexes with Group 8–12 metal halides (pp. 3219-3226) Jones, Cameron; Junk, Peter C.; Steed, Jonathan W.; Thomas, Ryan C.; Williams, Thomas C.
• Conditions for forming excited multiplet states: magnetic interactions between excited triplet (phthalocyaninato)zinc and doublet nitroxide radical (pp. 3227-3231) Ishii, Kazuyuki; Ishizaki, Takeo; Kobayashi, Nagao
• Synthesis, molecular structure and magnetic properties of tetranuclear copper(ii) complexes with pendant-arm macrocyclic ligands (pp. 3232-3237) Gou, Shaohua; Qian, Ming; Yu, Zhi; Duan, Chunying; Sun, Xuefeng; Huang, Wei

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• An investigation of the reaction of [RGa(μ3-Te)]4 with O2, SO2 and SeO2 using a combination of experiment and density functional theoryElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: comparison of DFT methods for [(Me)Ga(μ3-O)]4 and comparison of structural parameters for the calculated [(Me)Ga(μ3-O)]6 and empirical [(tBu)M(μ3-E)]6 structures. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b106998p/ (pp. 3239-3241) FahlmanPresent address: Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA 92717, USA., Bradley D.; Daniels, Andrew; Scusceria, Gustavo E.; Barron, Andrew R.
• The role of Brønsted acid catalysis in inter-metal ligand exchange reactions (pp. 3242-3243) Blackmore, Ian J.; Gibson, Vernon C.; Graham, Andrew J.; Jolly, Matthew; Marshall, Edward L.; Ward, Brian P.
• An unusual phase transition in the crystal structure and physical properties of (TTF)9[Mo(CN)8]2·4H2O, where TTF = tetrathiafulvalene (pp. 3244-3249) Rombaut, Guillaume; Turner, Scott S.; Pévelen, Delphine Le; Mathonière, Corine; Day, Peter; Prout, Keith
• Synthesis, structures and properties of platinum(ii) complexes of oligothiophene-functionalized ferrocenylacetylene (pp. 3250-3260) Wong, Wai-Yeung; Lu, Guo-Liang; Ng, Ka-Fai; Choi, Ka-Ho; Lin, Zhenyang
• Synthesis and computer modelling of hydroxy-derivatised carbosilane dendrimers based on polyhedral silsesquioxane cores (pp. 3261-3268) Zhang, Xinjie; Haxton, Katherine J.; Ropartz, Loïc; Cole-Hamilton, David J.; Morris, Russell E.
• Lanthanide porphyrazine sandwich complexes: synthetic, structural and spectroscopic investigations (pp. 3269-3273) Garrido Montalban, Antonio; Michel, Sarah L. J.; Baum, Sven M.; Vesper, Benjamin J.; White, Andrew J. P.; Williams, David J.; Barrett, Anthony G. M.; Hoffman, Brian M.
• Syntheses, structures and magnetic properties of two copper(Ii) diphosphonates: [NH3(CH2)2NH3]2[Cu2(hedp)2]·H2O and [NH3CH(CH3)CH2NH3]2[Cu2(hedp)2] (hedp = 1-hydroxyethylidenediphosphonate) (pp. 3274-3278) Song, Hui-Hua; Zheng, Li-Min; Liu, Yong-Jiang; Xin, Xin-Quan; Jacobson, Allan J.; Decurtins, Silvio
• Metal-mediated and solvent dependent chlorination of the nitrosonaphtholato ligandThe authors are very much obliged to Prof. Yuri N. Kukushkin (deceased Nov. 31st, 1998) for stimulating ideas and discussions relevant to this work. (pp. 3279-3284) Kaplan, Savelii F.; Kukushkin, Vadim Yu.; Pombeiro, Armando J. L.
• Charge density in Cu(glygly)(OH2)2·H2O at 10 K and the reproducibility of atomic orbital populationsElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: atomic fractional cell coordinates (293 and 10 K), μeg (293 and 10 K); selected bond lengths and angles; anisotropic displacement factors (spherical, 293 and 10 K; multipole, 10 K; valence orbital, 10 K), structure factors (spherical, 293 and 10 K; multipole, 10 K. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b102891j/ (pp. 3285-3294) Bytheway, Ian; Figgis, Brian N.; Sobolev, Alexandre N.
• High yield synthesis of Ru–Pt mixed-metal cluster compounds (pp. 3295-3302) Hermans, Sophie; Khimyak, Tetyana; Johnson, Brian F. G.
• Stereochemical nonrigidity of [Rh6(CO)15L] clusters in solutionElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available; the relationship between the rate of S-type exchange in [Rh6(CO)15(PR3)] and the pKa′ values of the phosphine ligand. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b101962g/ (pp. 3303-3311) Grachova, Elena V.; Heaton, Brian T.; Iggo, Jonathan A.; Podkorytov, Ivan S.; Smawfield, Daniel J.; Tunik, Sergey P.; Whyman, Robin
• Derivatives of the [Ru(bipy)(CN)4]2− chromophore with pendant pyridyl-based binding sites: synthesis, pH dependent-luminescence, and time-resolved infrared spectroscopic studies (pp. 3312-3319) Encinas, Susana; Morales, Angeles Farran; Barigelletti, Francesco; Barthram, Anita M.; White, Claire M.; Couchman, Samantha M.; Jeffery, John C.; Ward, Michael D.; Grills, David C.; George, Michael W.
• Synthesis and characterisation of zinc(ii) complexes of tripodal N7 ligands involving pyridine and amine or amide nitrogen donors. Crystal structure of a zinc(ii) complex (pp. 3320-3328) Mohamadou, Aminou; Gérard, Christian
• Diastereomeric metallatetrahedron complexes of the type Re2(MPPh3)(M′PPh3)(μ-PCy2)(CO)7(−)-thiocamphanate (M = Ag, Au, M′  = Cu, Ag, Au): synthesis, structure and CD data (pp. 3329-3336) Haupt, Hans-Jürgen; Seewald, Oliver; Flörke, Ulrich; Buß, Volker; Weyhermüller, Thomas
• Bis(acetylamido)oxovanadium(IV) complexes: solid state and solution studies (pp. 3337-3345) Crans, Debbie C.; Khan, A. Raza; Mahroof-Tahir, Mohammed; Mondal, Sujit; Miller, Susie M.; la Cour, Agnete; Anderson, Oren P.; Jakusch, Tamás; Kiss, Tamás
• Self-assembly of tetrametallic square [Re4(CO)12Br4(μ-pz)4] (pz = pyrazine) from [Re(CO)4Br(pz)]. A mechanistic approachElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: crystallographic data and elemental analysis for compound 9. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b101992i/ (pp. 3346-3351) Rajendran, T.; Manimaran, Bala.; Lee, Fang-Yuan; Chen, Po-Jui; Lin, Su-Ching; Lee, Gene-Hsiang; Peng, Shie-Ming; Chen, Yu-Ju; Lu, Kuang-Lieh
• Synthesis, X-ray characterization and single molecule magnetic behaviour of [Mn12O12(O2CCH2X)16(H2O)4]·mCH2Cl2·nH2O (1: X = Cl, m  = 2, n  = 6; 2: X = Br, m  = 4, n  = 0)Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: rotatable 3-D crystal structure diagrams in CHIME format; tables of selected bond distances and angles for 1 and 2; plots of magnetization data for 2. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b105258f/ (pp. 3352-3356) An, Jin; Chen, Zhi-Da; Zhang, Xi-Xiang; Raubenheimer, Helgard G.; Esterhuysen, Catharine; Gao, Song; Xu, Guang-Xian
• Synthesis of four derivatives of 3,6,10-tri(carboxymethyl)-3,6,10-triazadodecanedioic acid, the stabilities of their complexes with Ca(ii), Cu(ii), Zn(ii) and lanthanide(iii) and water-exchange investigations of Gd(iii) chelatesElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: tables of pM values and relaxivities; potentiometric titration curves for TTDA-PY, TTDA-HP, TTDA-H1P and TTDA-H2P; species distribution curves, plots of temperature dependence of transverse electronic relaxation rates and plots of pH dependence of conditional stability constants for Gd complexes of all four ligands and TTDA; 1H NMR and COSY spectra of [La(TTDA-HP)]−. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b107456n/ (pp. 3357-3366) Cheng, Tsan-Hwang; Wang, Yun-Ming; Lin, Kuei-Tang; Liu, Gin-Chung
• Metal-directed self-assembly of terphenyl based dithiocarbamate ligands (pp. 3367-3372) Uppadine, Lindsay H.; Weeks, Jennifer M.; Beer, Paul D.
• Electron transfer in a trinuclear oxo-centred mixed-valence iron complex, in solid and solution statesDedicated to Professor Dieter Sellmann on the occasion of his 60th birthday. (pp. 3373-3383) StadlerPresent address: Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica (CSIC), Campus Universidad Autónoma, Cantoblanco, 28049, Madrid, Spain., Christian; Daub, Jörg; Köhler, Jürgen; Saalfrank, Rolf W.; Coropceanu, Veaceslav; Schünemann, Volker; Ober, Claudia; Trautwein, Alfred X.; Parker, Stewart F.; Poyraz, Mehmet; Inomata, Tomohiko; Cannon, Roderick D.
• Palladium(ii) complexes with the bidentate iminophosphine ligand [Ph2PCH2C(Ph)N(2,6-Me2C6H3)] (pp. 3384-3395) Coleman, Karl S.; Green, Malcolm L. H.; Pascu, Sofia I.; Rees, Nicholas H.; Cowley, A. R.; Rees, Leigh H.

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• Unusual mechanistic pathways. The novel chemistry of compounds with tris(trimethylsilyl)methyl or related ligands on siliconElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: a complete list of the author's publications, with titles, on compounds with trisyl or related ligands on silicon (and for comparison, on germanium or tin) or species containing trisyl-type groups not on a metal or metalloid. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b106509m/ (pp. 3397-3406) Eaborn, Colin
• A new carbonate bridged tetranuclear zinc(ii) complex of an asymmetric tetrapodal compartmental ligand (pp. 3407-3409) Adams, Harry; Bradshaw, Darren; Fenton, David E.
• Uranyl ions as supramolecular linkers in a bis(hexahomotrioxacalix[6]arene) hexa-uranate complex (pp. 3410-3412) Thuéry, Pierre; Nierlich, Martine; Vicens, Jacques; Masci, Bernardo
• Structure and magnetic properties of a novel two-dimensional thiocyanato-bridged heterometallic polymer {Cu(en)2[Ni(en)(SCN)3]2}n (pp. 3413-3414) Shen, Liang; Xu, Yun-Zhi
• A dimer-to-dimer metal–metal linear aggregate from a (μ-1,3-NO3)2 double-bridged cis-(2,2′-bipyridine)palladium(ii) cofacial dimer (pp. 3415-3416) Yu, Shu-Yan; Fujita, Makoto; Yamaguchi, Kentaro
• An unexpected tetrahydrofuran ring opening: synthesis and structural characterization of Ph3PO(CH2)4TeBr4 (pp. 3417-3418) Kunnari, Sari M.; Oilunkaniemi, Raija; Laitinen, Risto S.; Ahlgrén, Markku
• The first polyoxomolybdenum carbonate compound: Synthesis and crystal structure of (NH4)5[(Mo2VO4)3(μ6-CO3)(μ-CO3)3(μ-OH)3]·0.5CH3OH 1 (pp. 3419-3420) Manos, Manolis J.; Keramidas, Anastasios D.; Woollins, J. Derek; Slawin, Alexandra M. Z.; Kabanos, Themistoklis A.
• Synthesis and structure of novel rhodium complexes of multi-functionalised amine-phosphine ligands (pp. 3421-3429) Clarke, Matthew L.; Slawin, Alexandra M. Z.; Wheatley, Matthew V.; Woollins, J. Derek
• Kinetics and mechanism of cleavage of the oxygen–oxygen bond in hydrogen peroxide and dibenzoyl peroxide by arylplatinum(ii) complexes (pp. 3430-3434) Rashidi, Mehdi; Nabavizadeh, Masoud; Hakimelahi, Rakhshan; Jamali, Sirous
• Structural distortions in homoleptic (RE)4A (E = O, S, Se; A = C, Si, Ge, Sn): implications for the CVD of tin sulfides (pp. 3435-3445) Barone, Giampaolo; Hibbert, Thomas G.; Mahon, Mary F.; Molloy, Kieran C.; Parkin, Ivan P.; Price, Louise S.; Silaghi-Dumitrescu, Ioan
• Influences of secondary metal–ligand subunits on molybdenum oxide structures: the hydrothermal syntheses and structures of [M(tpytrz)2Mo4O13] (M = Fe, Co, Ni, Zn; tpytrz = tripyridyltriazine), [Ni(tpytrz)Mo2O7] and [Zn2(tpytrz)Mo2O8] (pp. 3446-3452) Rarig, Jr., Randy S.; Zubieta, Jon
• Preparation, structural studies, and magnetic properties of coordination complexes of bimetallic arylplatinum compounds and pyridyl nitronyl nitroxide radicals (pp. 3453-3458) Gardinier, James R.; Clérac, Rodolphe; Gabbaï, François P.
• Alkali metal reduction of 2-halogeno- and 2-thiolato-2,3-dihydro-1H-1,3,2-diazaboroles (pp. 3459-3464) Weber, Lothar; Schnieder, Markus; Lönnecke, Peter
• The synthesis and structure of lithium derivatives of the sterically encumbered β-diketiminate ligand [{(2,6-Pri2H3C6)N(CH3)C}2CH]−, and a modified synthesis of the aminoimine precursor (pp. 3465-3469) Stender, Matthias; Wright, Robert J.; Eichler, Barrett E.; Prust, Jörg; Olmstead, Marilyn M.; Roesky, Herbert W.; Power, Philip P.
• Proton affinity of [Fe4S4{SCH2CH(OH)Me}4]2− in methanol: relevance to hydrogen bonding of Fe–S clusters in proteinsElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: kinetic data for the reaction of [Fe4S4{SCH2CH(OH)Me}4]2− with PhS− in the presence of [NHEt3]+ in MeOH at 25 °C. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b105075n/ (pp. 3470-3477) Davies, Sian C.; Evans, David J.; Henderson, Richard A.; Hughes, David L.; Longhurst, Steven
• Bimetallic reactivity. Preparations, properties and structures of complexes formed by unsymmetrical binucleating ligands bearing 4- and 6-coordinate sites supported by alkoxide bridges (pp. 3478-3488) Incarvito, Christopher; Lam, Matthew; Rhatigan, Brian; Rheingold, Arnold L.; Qin, C. Jin; Gavrilova, Anna L.; Bosnich, B.
• Osmium(iv) complexes TpOs(X)Cl2 and their Os(iii) counterparts: oxidizing compounds with an unusual resistance to ligand substitution (pp. 3489-3497) BennettPresent address: Department of Chemistry, University of North Dakota, P.O. Box 9024, Grand Forks, ND 58202, USA., Brian K.; PitteriUW Chemistry NSF REU program participant., Sharon J.; Pilobello, Lani; LovellDepartment of Chemistry X-ray diffraction facility., Scott; Kaminsky, Werner; Mayer, James M.
• Synthesis, structure, spectra and redox of Cu(ii) complexes of chelating bis(benzimidazole)—thioether ligands as models for electron transfer blue copper proteinsDedicated to Professor P. Natarajan on the occasion of his sixtieth anniversary. Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Fig. S1 showing the preliminary X-ray structure of the [Cu(L3)]+ cation, Figs. S2, S4 and S5 showing the cyclic and differential pulse voltammograms of complexes 1a, 3 and 4 respectively and Fig. S3 showing the cyclic voltammograms of complexes 2a and 2b. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b103511h/ (pp. 3498-3506) Vaidyanathan, Mathrubootham; Balamurugan, Ramalingam; Sivagnanam, Usha; Palaniandavar, Mallayan
• Tuning the coordination mode in mononuclear manganese complexes by changing the steric bulk of the carboxylates (pp. 3507-3512) Warzeska, Sabine T.; Miccichè, Fabrizio; Mimmi, M. Chiara; Bouwman, Elisabeth; Kooijman, Huub; Spek, Anthony L.; Reedijk, Jan
• Polydentate ligand construction: a re-examination of an intramolecular condensation reactionElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: crystal data tables. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b104976n/ (pp. 3513-3519) Browne, Julian M. W.; Wikaira, Jan; Hartshorn, Richard M.
• Neutral and cationic biimidazoledihalogenobis(trimethylphosphine)rhenium(iii) complexes: ion-pairing, acid–base and redox propertiesElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: details of the structure determination and refinement for compounds 4, 5, 7 and 9·OPPh3. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b103719f/ (pp. 3520-3527) Fortin, Sébastien; Fabre, Paul-Louis; Dartiguenave, Michèle; Beauchamp, André L.
• Molecular rearrangements controlled by pH-driven Cu2+ motions (pp. 3528-3533) Amendola, Valeria; Brusoni, Chiara; Fabbrizzi, Luigi; Mangano, Carlo; Miller, Hamish; Pallavicini, Piersandro; Perotti, Angelo; Taglietti, Angelo
• Synthesis and crystal structures of silver(i), palladium(ii), zinc(ii) and cobalt(ii) complexes of the ditoptic ligand 1,3-bis(imidazol-1-ylmethyl)-2,4,6-trimethylbenzene (pp. 3534-3540) Liu, Hong-Ke; Hu, Jun; Wang, Tian-Wei; Yu, Xiao-Lan; Liu, Jun; Kang, Beisheng

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• The chemistry of chiral heterometallocenes (pp. 3541-3548) Ganter, Christian
• Formation of [M(15-crown-5)2]2[Li(NHPy)3] (M = K or Cs): the first structurally authenticated examples of a monomeric lithium species coordinated by three amide anions (pp. 3549-3550) Liddle, Stephen T.; Clegg, William
• X-Ray crystallographic analysis of D,L-[Fe2{SCH2CH(CH2OH)S}(CO)6] reveals a hydrogen-bonded cyclic hexamer with ordered optical centres (pp. 3551-3552) Razavet, Mathieu; Cloirec, Alban Le; Davies, Sian C.; Hughes, David L.; Pickett, Christopher J.
• Structural model for the CuB site of dopamine β-hydroxylase and peptidylglycine α-hydroxylating monooxygenase: crystal structure of a copper(ii) complex showing N3OS coordination and axial sulfur ligation (pp. 3553-3555) Santra, Bidyut K.; Reddy, Pattubala A. N.; Nethaji, Munirathinam; Chakravarty, Akhil R.
• Molecular and electronic structures of six-coordinate chloro-oxo-metalate complexes of V, Nb, Ta, Mo, and W (pp. 3556-3563) Bridgeman, Adam J.; Cavigliasso, Germán
• Selectivity of sterically efficient [HB(pz)3]− and crowded [B(pz)4]− for first-series transition metals and CdElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: experimental details. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b106006f/ (pp. 3564-3571) Kitano, Tsuyoshi; Sohrin, Yoshiki; Hata, Yasuo; Kawakami, Hitoshi; Hori, Takeyoshi; Ueda, Kazumasa
• Tl(i) complexes of cymantrene-based tris(1-pyrazolyl)borates: polymers and macrocycles (pp. 3572-3576) Guo, ShengLi; Bats, Jan W.; Bolte, Michael; Wagner, Matthias
• Coordination polymers of d10 metals and N,N′-bis(3-pyridinecarboxamide)-1,2-ethane (pp. 3577-3584) Muthu, Sebastian; Yip, John H. K.; VittalTo whom crystallographic inquires should be addressed., Jagadese J.
• Crystallisation of calcium phosphates under constant conditions with a double diffusion set-up (pp. 3585-3592) Peters, Fabian; Epple, Matthias
• Reduction of vanadium(v) by oxalic acid in aqueous acid solutions (pp. 3593-3597) Bruyère, Vivianne I. E.; García Rodenas, Luis A.; Morando, Pedro J.; Blesa, Miguel A.
• Chiral palladium complexes from N-diphenylphosphinoamino methyl esters (pp. 3598-3602) Zhang, Qingzhi; Slawin, Alexandra M. Z.; Woollins, J. Derek
• Synthesis, properties and spectroscopic studies of rhenium(v) complexes stabilized by tridentate Schiff bases derived from S-methyl dithiocarbazate (pp. 3603-3610) Mévellec, F.; Roucoux, A.; Noiret, N.; Patin, H.
• Binuclear Co(ii)Co(ii), Co(ii)Co(iii) and Co(iii)Co(iii) complexes of “short” salen homologues derived from the condensation of salicylaldehyde and methanediamine or phenylmethanediamines. Synthesis, structures and magnetismElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Appendix, derivation of the expression for the average magnetic susceptibility of a Co(ii)Co(ii) dimer. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b105594c/ (pp. 3611-3616) Chiari, Brunetto; Cinti, Antonio; Crispu, Ornella; Demartin, Francesco; Pasini, Alessandro; Piovesana, Olivo
• Tetranuclear rhodium clusters with facial cyclooctatetraene ligandsDedicated to Professor Hansgeorg Schnöckel on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: packing diagrams for 4 and 6. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b105485f/ (pp. 3617-3626) Wadepohl, Hubert; Merkel, Rüdiger; Pritzkow, Hans; Rihm, Sven
• Reactions of Ru(CCPh)(PPh3)2Cp* with tetracyanoethene: cycloaddition, formation of unusual η2-CNR complexes and oligomerisation via bridging cyanocarbon ligands (pp. 3627-3633) Bruce, Michael I.; Skelton, Brian W.; White, Allan H.; Zaitseva, Natasha N.
• Syntheses, crystal structures and electrochemical studies of bi- and trimetallic conjugated ferrocene-based complexes (pp. 3634-3640) Mata, José A.; Peris, Eduardo
• Conformational and coordination plasticity in silver(i) cryptates (pp. 3641-3646) McKee, Vickie; Nelson, Jane; Speed, David J.; Town, Raewyn M.
• Silver(i) coordination by variants of the bis(diphenylphosphino)amine chalcogenide ligandElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: tables of crystal data. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b105154g/ (pp. 3647-3651) Wilton-Ely, James D. E. T.; Schier, Annette; Schmidbaur, Hubert
• Complex-formation reactions of Cu(ii) and Zn(ii) 2,2′-bipyridine and 1,10-phenanthroline complexes with bicarbonate. Identification of different carbonate coordination modes (pp. 3652-3662) Mao, Zong-Wan; Heinemann, Frank W.; Liehr, Günther; Eldik, Rudi van
• Unprecedented copper(ii)-assisted acetal formation of a formyl-substituted bispyrazole. The X-ray structures of copper[1,2-bis(3′-dimethoxymethylpyrazol-1′-yl)ethane] dichloride and dibromide (pp. 3663-3667) Koval, Iryna A.; Schuitema, Anna M.; Driessen, Willem L.; Reedijk, Jan
• Polyoxometalates with pendant surface ligands. Synthesis and characterization of [SiW11O39M(H3P2O7)]7−Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: IR spectra of α-SiW11Co-P2O7, α-SiW11 and Na4P2O7 (Fig. 1) and tables of 31P NMR data (Tables 1 and 2). See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b1/b104132k/ (pp. 3668-3671) Peng, Jun; Li, Wenzhuo; Wang, Enbo; Bai, Qinglong