title: An interwoven Fe3L3 trigonal metallamacrocycle from an in situ ligand hydrolysis reaction.
abstract: Through an in situ hydrolysis reaction of the bishydrazone ligand H4L1 [H4L1=(HOC6H4)CH=NNHCO(C5H3N)CONHN[double bond, length as m-dash]CH(C6H4OH)], in the presence of Fe(III) ions, an interwoven trigonal metallamacrocycle [Fe3L3(H2O)3].9H2O () [H3L=(HOC6H4)CH=NNHCO(C5H3N)CO2H] containing unusually double-layered capsule-like water hexamers was obtained and characterized by elemental analysis, FT-IR, TGA, ESI-MS and X-ray crystallography.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, China.
authors.forename: Qing-Fu
authors.initials: QF
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Fei-Long
authors.initials: FL
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: You-Gui
authors.initials: YG
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Qiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Ke-Cai
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Xiong
authors.forename: Mao-Chun
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Hong