Synthesis and Characterization of Iron(<scp>III</scp>) Phosphonate Cage Complexes

Abstract

Sophisticated architectures can be built from oxo-centered carboxylate triangles linked together by phosphonates. This suggests that the phosphonate ligands could function as a means for building larger entities from carboxylate cages. The incorporation of a peroxide unit into the cage structures is also feasible, for example in the hexanuclear cage depicted.