title: Novel tetranuclear copper |2 + 4| cubanes resulting from unprecedented C-O bond formation cum dearomatization.
abstract: Novel tetranuclear copper |2 + 4| cubanes 1 and 2 have been synthesized from the reaction of hydrated copper salts/precursors with N,O chelating β-ketoaminato ligands. Creation of 1 and 2 occurs by in situ generation of the tridentate chelating species HL1O(2-) via copper mediated C-O bond formation and dearomatization of H3L1, while anhydrous salts afforded mononuclear complex 3.
authors: Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221 005, India. dspbhu@bhu.ac.in dsprewa@yahoo.com.
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