posted on 2010-05-17, 00:00authored byConstantinos C. Stoumpos, Ross Inglis, Olivier Roubeau, Harikleia Sartzi, Alexandros A. Kitos, Constantinos J. Milios, Guillem Aromí, Anastasios J. Tasiopoulos, Vasilios Nastopoulos, Euan K. Brechin, Spyros P. Perlepes
The use of phenyl-2-pyridyl ketone oxime and di-2-pyridyl ketone oxime in Mn chemistry has led to hexanuclear clusters with unprecedented (MnII4MnIIIMnIV) or extremely rare (MnIIMnIII5 and MnII3MnIII3) metal oxidation-state combinations and uncommon structural motifs.