title: Self-Assembly of Magnesium Hydride Clusters Driven by Chameleon-Type Ligands.
abstract: While magnesium hydride complexes are generally stabilized by hard, bulky N-donor ligands, softer ligands with a broad variety of coordination modes are shown to efficiently adapt themselves to the large variety of Mg2+centers in a growing magnesium hydride cluster. A P,N-chelating ligand is introduced that displays coordination modes between that of enamide, aza-allyl, and phosphinomethanide. Slight changes in the ligand bite angle have dramatic consequences for the structure type. The hitherto largest neutral magnesium hydride clusters are isolated either in a nonanuclear sheet-structure (brucite-type) or a dodecanuclear ring structure.
authors.affiliation: Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Egerlandstrasse 1, 91058, Erlangen, Germany.
authors.forename: Jens
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-2895-4979
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Langer
authors.affiliation: Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Egerlandstrasse 1, 91058, Erlangen, Germany.
authors.forename: Brant
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Maitland
authors.affiliation: Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Egerlandstrasse 1, 91058, Erlangen, Germany.
authors.forename: Samuel
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Grams
authors.affiliation: Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Egerlandstrasse 1, 91058, Erlangen, Germany.
authors.forename: Alexandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ciucka
authors.affiliation: Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Egerlandstrasse 1, 91058, Erlangen, Germany.
authors.forename: Jürgen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pahl
authors.affiliation: Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Egerlandstrasse 1, 91058, Erlangen, Germany.
authors.forename: Holger
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Elsen
authors.affiliation: Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Egerlandstrasse 1, 91058, Erlangen, Germany.
authors.forename: Sjoerd
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-3997-1440
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Harder
keywords: hybrid ligands; hydrides; magnesium; self-assembly