Probing Structural Diversity in a Series of Perhydrocarbyl Heterobimetallic Complexes Associating Tantalum and 3d (Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) Transition Metals Salt metathesis between an alkali-stabilized tantalate complex, [Li(thf)2][Ta(CtBu)(CH2tBu)3] (1), and a series of alkylcyclopentadienyl 3d transition metal halide dimers, [Cp’M(μ-X)]2 (2-MX, Cp’ = 1,...

Our last article describing a series of (not so) similar tantalum-3d metal #heterobimetallic complexes is out in Inorganic Chemistry @acs.org

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(2/4) Homometallic helicates form with Fe(II), Zn(II), and Co(II).
We demonstrate highly selective #heterobimetallic #self-sorting of Zn(II) and Fe(II), as well as Zn(II) and Co(II), within the helicates, despite both metal centres being octahedrally coordinated.