Discrete Polymetallic Arrangements of Ag^I and Cu^I Ions Based on Multiple Bridging Phosphane Ligands and π–π Interactions

Abstract

Abstract A simple and straightforward approach to new polymetallic Ag I and Cu I supramolecules is presented. The reaction of N,P,N,P,N ligand 2 with Ag I ions affords a trimetallic complex bearing a triangular Ag 3 core; metallophilic interactions are stabilized by ligands that display a multiple bridging coordination mode as 10‐electron donors. Heteroleptic polymetallic Ag I and Cu I complexes based on ligand 2 and the 1,12‐diazaperylene (dape) ligand are obtained by an alternative molecular organization of the polymetallic arrays compared to that in homoleptic complexes of ligand 2 .