Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Communications, 28(47), p. 8055, 2011
DOI: 10.1039/c1cc11381j
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The reaction of nitrosobenzene with copper(I) complexes of a tetradentate ligand led to two novel species that are best described as copper(II) complexes of an O-bonded nitrosobenzyl radical anion, in either the singlet or the triplet spin-state. Both states were characterized by crystal structures, magnetic measurements and DFT calculations.