title: Deliberate boxes and accidental wheels.
abstract: This report describes systems which combine the structural and reactive motifs of a dinucleating terpyridine-aminomethylpyridine ligand, L, with the coordination preferences and flexibilities of particular divalent metal ions to form a series of closely related box structures in a deliberate fashion. The ligand also produces unprecedented decanickel wheel complexes. Halogen to aromatic hydrogen interactions may be important in stabilising the decanickel wheel structures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand. richard.hartshorn@canterbury.ac.nz.
authors.forename: Gurpreet
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kaur
authors.forename: Matthew I J
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Polson
authors.forename: Richard M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Hartshorn