title: Using cluster analysis to study transition-metal geometries: four-coordinate complexes with two salicylaldiminato or related ligands.
abstract: Cluster analysis is shown to be an effective method to analyse and classify metal coordination geometry in a very large number of four-coordinate bis-salicylaldimato (or bis-beta-iminoketonate) transition-metal complexes available in the Cambridge Structural Database. The methods described require no prior knowledge of chemistry to be input; retrieved structures are automatically clustered into groups based purely on the geometric similarity of the fragments and these groupings can then be interpreted by the structural chemist.
authors.affiliation: WestCHEM, Department of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland. a.parkin@chem.gla.ac.uk
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Parkin
authors.forename: Gordon
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Barr
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Collins
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.forename: Christopher J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Gilmore
authors.forename: Peter A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Tasker
authors.forename: Chick C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Wilson