General synthesis of 'salicylaldehyde half-unit complexes': Structural determination and use as synthon for the synthesis of dimetallic or trimetallic complexes and of 'self-assembling ligand complexes'

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0020-1693(97)05991-4

Template synthesis of the ligand resulting from the monocondensation of 1,2-diaminoethane with salicylaldehyde was realized successfully in the presence of copper(II) ions and nitrogen bases (imidazole, pyridine). This 'half-unit' ligand, named 4-(2-hydro