Novel organoaluminium (and gallium) carboxylate-bridged ring systems.
Treatment of the Schiff-base ligand [3,5-But2-2-(OH)C6H2CHNC6H4-2-(CO2H)] with either Me3Al, Me2AlCl or Me3Ga affords 16-membered macrocyclic tetramers containing both four- and six-coordinate metal centres.
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Wolfson Materials and Catalysis Centre, School of Chemical Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK NR4 7TJ. carl.redshaw@uea.ac.uk
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