Ms. Shongwe et al., MOLECULAR-STRUCTURE OF [MNIIIL2]- [H2L = N-(3,5-DICHLORO-2-HYDROXYBENZYL)GLYCINE] - EVIDENCE FOR A PSEUDO-JAHN-TELLER COMPRESSION, Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, (7), 1994, pp. 887-888
Reaction of 2 equivalents of the deprotonated ligand, L2-, with mangan
ese(II) under ambient conditions involves one-electron oxidation of th
e latter to afford the title complex; a single-crystal X-ray diffracti
on study of this heteroleptic complex has shown the Mn(III) ion to be
in a compressed rhombic octahedral environment in accordance with a ps
eudo-Jahn-Teller compression.