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Article: Researchers at University of Western Australia target metals.
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- Journal of Technology
- Article date:
- August 18, 2009
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According to recent research published in the journal Organometallics, "A range of mercury-imidazolylidene complexes have been prepared by reaction of imidazolium-linked cyclophanes with mercury(II) acetate. For cyclophanes based on meta-xylyl groups the mercury complexes are mononuclear and exhibit unprecedented structures in which the mercury atom is bound within the cyclophane ring, the two NHC donors being mutually trans, For cyclophanes based on ortho-xylyl or 2,6-lutidinediyl group, the mercury complexes are dinuclear with a [Hg(mu-L)(2)Hg] Core, in which each mercury atom is coordinated by one NHC from each cyclophane unit."
"The mononuclear and dinuclear ...