A family of heterometallic wheels containing potentially fourteen hundred siblings

A family of heterometallic wheels containing potentially fourteen hundred siblings†

Rebecca H. Laye,^a Finn K. Larsen,^b Jacob Overgaard,^b Christopher A. Muryn,^a Eric J. L. McInnes,*^a Eva Rentschler,*^c Veronica Sanchez,^a Simon J. Teat,^e Hans U. Güdel,^f Oliver Waldmann,^f Grigore A. Timco*^ad and Richard E. P. Winpenny*^a

* Corresponding authors

^a Department of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK
E-mail: richard.winpenny@manchester.ac.uk, eric.mcinnes@manchester.ac.uk, grigore.timco@manchester.ac.uk

^b Department of Chemistry, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Århus C, Denmark

^c Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Institut für Anorganische Chemie und Analytische Chemie, Duesbergweg 10-14, 55099 Mainz

^d Institute of Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Academy Str. 3, Chisinau, MD-2028 Republic of Moldova

^e CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, Cheshire, UK

^f Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, Freiestrasse 3, CH-3000 Bern 9, Switzerland

The synthesis and structure of new heterometallic wheels are reported, with preliminary studies of selected compounds.