Royal Society of Chemistry, Dalton Transactions, 9(44), p. 4200-4206, 2015
DOI: 10.1039/c4dt03089c
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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.