American Chemical Society, Inorganic Chemistry, 14(45), p. 5239-5241, 2006
DOI: 10.1021/ic0602446
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Two dicopper(I) complexes containing tertiary N-methylated hexaaza ligands which impose different steric constrains to the Cu ions have been synthetized, and their reactivity towards O2 has been compared with a mononuclear related system, highlighting the importance of cooperative effects between the metal centers in O2 activation.