The ability of mononucleating and dinucleating macrocylic polyamines and their novel nickel, copper and zinc complexes to induce the left-handed form of poly d(GC) was evaluated. The influence of the nuclearity, the presence or absence of metals ions, the linker length in the case of dinucleating ligands and the metal ion was determined. Almost all dinuclear metal complexes efficiently induced ...

Streptomyces dizinc aminopeptidase (sAP) shows a specific activity of 33.7 nmol min(-1) mg(-1) toward the hydrolysis of the transition-state analogue bis-p-nitrophenylphosphate with a rate constant of k(cat)/K(m)=100 M(-1) s(-1) and a first-order rate enhancement of about 10(10), which is much superior to several Zn chemical models and comparable to some phosphodiesterases. This study suggests ...

The title complex, [Cu(2)(C(16)H(10)NO(2))(4)(CH(3)OH)(2)], consists of centrosymmetric wheel-shaped dinuclear neutral mol-ecules in which each Cu(II) atom is coordinated in a slightly distorted square-pyramidal geometry by four O atoms of carboxyl-ate groups from different ligands at the basal plane and an O atom of a methanol mol-ecule at the axial position. In the crystal, the dinuclear comp...

The title dinuclear compound, [Tb(2)(C(7)H(5)O(3))(6)(H(2)O)(6)]·10H(2)O, lies on a center of inversion and the two Tb(III) atoms are bridged by two 4-hydroxy-benzoate anions; each metal atom is further coordinated by one monodentate anion and chelated by the third anion. The eight-coordinate geometry approximates a square anti-prism. Hydrogen bonds of the O-H⋯O type connect the uncoordinated w...

The title compound, [Ni(2)(C(9)H(6)O(4))(2)(C(12)H(8)N(2))(2)(H(2)O)(2)], is isostructural with the Zn(II) analogue. Each Ni(II) atom is coordinated in a distorted octa-hedral geometry by three O atoms from two homophthalate anions, one aqua O atom and two 1,10-phenanthroline N atoms. The two Ni(II) atoms are linked by two bridging homophthalate dianions into a centrosymmetric dinuclear unit. T...

The reaction of Ln(NO3)2·6H2O salts (Ln = Eu and Tb) with an excess 2-fluorobenzoic acid (H-2FBz) in ethanol/water mixture allows the isolation dinuclear compounds formula [Ln2(-2FBz)4(2FBz)2(H-2FBz)2(H2O)2] (Ln...

Tetranuclear [M 4 (OEt) 8 (L 1 ) (μ-O) 2 ] and dinuclear H (μ-O)] complexes (M = Nb, Ta) derived from benzilic acid diphenylglycine 3 have been structurally characterized are capable of the ROP μ-caprolactone rac -lactide.

A method to modulate the strength of the superexchange coupling interaction in dinuclear helical assemblies based on the coordination preferences of the metal centres is described.

The title centrosymmetric dinuclear Ni(II) complex, [Ni(C(14)H(8)O(4)S)(C(3)H(7)NO)](n), was prepared via reaction of Ni(NO(3))(2)·6H(2)O and thio-salicylic acid, with H(2)O and dimethyl-formamide (DMF) as the mixed solvent. The central Ni(II) ion is five-coordinated by five O atoms from DMF and from the carboxyl-ate groups of the organic ligand. The symmetry-related coordination polyhedra inte...

Two new AIE-active dinuclear Schiff base Ir(III) complexes exhibit highly reversible piezochromic phosphorescence behaviour enabling the construction of a re-writable phosphorescence data recording device.