Controlled ligand distortion and its consequences for structure, symmetry, conformation and spin-state preferences of iron(ii) complexesDedicated to Professor Manfred Scheer on the occasion of his 60th birthday.Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Crystallographic data; selected structural details (XRD/DFT); additional figures. CCDC 1008832-1008837. For ESI and crystallographic data in CIF or other electronic format see DOI: 10.1039/c5dt02502h

• Main Authors: Kroll, Nicole, Theilacker, Kolja, Schoknecht, Marc, Baabe, Dirk, Wiedemann, Dennis, Kaupp, Martin, Grohmann, Andreas, Hörner, Gerald
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 03.11.2015

The ligand-field strength in metal complexes of polydentate ligands depends critically on how the ligand backbone places the donor atoms in three-dimensional space. Distortions from regular coordination geometries are often observed. In this work, we study the isolated effect of ligand-sphere distor...