Salen bismuth alkoxides, where the salen ligand contains 2,4-di-tert-butylphenoxy groups and one of ethylene, cyclohexane or ortho-phenyl as a backbone have been prepared from reactions involving Bi[N(SiMe₃)₂]₃ and the free salen ligand followed by alcoholysis (ButOH, PriOH and 2,6-But₂C₆H₃OH). The molecular structures of the salen ligand with the cyclohexyl back-bone have been determined for t...

Salen Mn complexes, including EUK-134, EUK-189 and a cyclized analog EUK-207, are synthetic superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase mimetics that are beneficial in many models of oxidative stress. Though not designed to target the mitochondria, salen Mn complexes show "mito-protective" activity, that is, an ability to attenuate mitochondrial injury, in various experimental systems. Treatment wi...

A Zn-salen-modified cavitand templates the catalytic formation of acetylcholine from choline and acetic anhydride.

the crystal structure of the compound c20 h24 n2 o24 was determined by direct methods. thecrystals are monoclinic, space group p21/n, and unit cell parameters are: a= 10.2342 (9), b=4.8763 (5),c=19.3578 (11) a, β =98.9632 (10) o ,v=956.6 (5) a3, z=2, dc=1.239grm-3, dm=1.22grm-3. the final rfactorsare converged to r=0.059 and rw=0.056 for 553 independent observed reflections. themolecules are li...

Reaction of H(2)salen (H(2)L) with Tb(OAc)(3).4H(2)O (3 : 2) in MeOH-MeCN under reflux gave homoleptic Tb(4)L(6) (1) in 40% yield; in contrast, similar reactions of Tb(NO(3))(3).6H(2)O and LnCl(3).6H(2)O (Ln = Tb, Nd and Yb) gave [TbL(NO(3))(MeOH)](2)(micro-H(2)L) (2) and [LnL(Cl)(MeOH)](2)(micro-H(2)L) (Ln = Tb (3), Nd (4) and Yb (5); H(2)L = N,N'-ethylenebis(salicylideneimine)).

Unique homoleptic cyclic tetranuclear Ln4(Salen)4 complexes [Ln4(L)2(HL)2(μ3-OH)2Cl2]·2Cl (Ln = Nd, 1; Ln = Yb, 2; Ln = Er, 3; Ln = Gd, 4) or Ln4(Salen)2 complexes [Ln4(L)2(μ3-OH)2(OAc)6] (Ln = Nd, 5; Ln = Yb, 6; Ln = Er, 7; Ln = Gd, 8) have been self-assembled from the reaction of the hexadentate Salen-type Schiff-base ligand H2L with LnCl3·6H2O or Ln(OAc)6·6H2O (Ln = Nd, Yb, Er, or Gd), respe...

For the helix-shaped vines growing in garden, as well for many bioactive molecules and other three-dimensional objects, chirality is an essential ubiquitous property. The synthetic control of atropoisomerism along C−N bonds particularly rare challenging, however. A simple CrIII–salen complex was nevertheless used a chiral enantiopure catalyst highly atroposelective Nenitzescu indole synthesis. ...

The reaction of a heteroligated Rh(I) bimetallic macrocycle with rigid ditopic ligands (1,4-dicyanobenzene, 4-4'-dicyanobiphenyl, or dipyridyl terminated salen ligand 5) results in the formation of tetrametallic rectangular box complexes.

This study introduces new methods of screening for and tuning chiral space and in so doing identifies a promising set of chiral ligands for asymmetric synthesis. The carbafructopyranosyl-1,2-diamine(s) and salens constructed therefrom are particularly compelling. It is shown that by removing the native anomeric effect in this ligand family, one can tune chiral ligand shape and improve chiral bi...