Cw. Chan et al., 6-COORDINATED AND 7-COORDINATED MANGANESE(II) COMPLEXES OF QUATERPYRIDINE - SYNTHESIS, X-RAY CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE AND CATALYST FOR ALKENE EPOXIDATION, Polyhedron, 12(18), 1993, pp. 2169-2173
Reaction of Mn(ClO4)2 . xH2O and Mn(CH3CO2)3 . xH2O with 2,2': 6',2'':
6'',2'''-quaterpyridine (QP) in acetonitrile or methanol gave the com
plexes [Mn(QP)(H2O)2] (ClO4)2 and [Mn(QP)(CH3CO2)(H2O)](ClO4), respect
ively. X-ray crystal structure determination revealed that the mangane
se atom is six-coordinated in the former, but seven-coordinated in the
latter. Both complexes catalysed oxidation of alkenes by PhIO.