TY - JOUR A1 - Holdt, Hans-Jürgen A1 - Müller, Holger A1 - Kelling, Alexandra A1 - Drexler, Hans-Joachim A1 - Müller, Thomas A1 - Schwarze, Thomas A1 - Schilde, Uwe A1 - Starke, Ines T1 - Mercury(II) chloride and iodide complexes of dithia- and tetrathiacrown ethers N2 - The complexes [(HgCl2)(2)((ch)(2)30S(4)O(6))] (1), [HgCl,(mn21S(2)O(5))] (2), [HgCl2(ch18S(2)O(4))] (3) and [HgI(meb12S(2)O(2))](2)[Hg2I6] (4) have been synthesized, characterized and their crystal structures were determined. In [(HgCl2)(2)((ch)(2)3OS(4)O(6))] two HgCl2 units are discretely bonded within the ligand cavity of the 30-membered dichinoxaline-tetrathia-30-crown-10 ((ch)(2)30S(4)O(6)) forming a binuclear complex. HgCl2 forms I : I "in-cavity" complexes with the 21-membered maleonitrile-dithia-21-crown-7(mn21S(2)O(5)) ligand and the 18-membered chinoxaline- dithia-18-crown-6 (ch18S(2)O(4)) ligand, respectively. The 12-membered 4-methyl-benzo-dithia-12-crown-4 (meb12S(2)O(2)) ligand gave with two equivalents HgI2 the compound [HgI(meb12S(2)O(2))](2)[Hg2I6]. In the cation [HgI(meb12S(2)O(2))](+) meb12S(2)O(2) forms with the cation HgI+ a half-sandwich complex Y1 - 2006 UR - http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/10005159 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/zaac.200500281 SN - 0044-2313 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schwarze, Thomas A1 - Sperlich, Eric A1 - Müller, Thomas A1 - Kelling, Alexandra A1 - Holdt, Hans-Jürgen T1 - Synthesis efforts of acyclic bis(monoalkylamino)maleonitriles and macrocyclic bis(dialkylamino)maleonitriles as fluorescent probes for cations and a new colorimetric copper(II) chemodosimeter JF - Helvetica chimica acta N2 - In this article, we report on the synthesis of acyclic bis(monoalkylamino)maleonitriles and on the intended synthesis of macrocyclic bis(dialkylamino)maleonitriles to get fluorescent probes for cations. During our efforts to synthesize macrocyclic bis(dialkylamino)maleonitriles, we were only able to isolate macrocyclic bis(dialkylamino)-fumaronitriles. The synthesis of macrocyclic bis(dialkylamino)maleonitriles is challenging, due to the fact that bis-(dialkylamino)fumaronitriles are thermodynamically more stable than the corresponding bis(dialkylamino)-maleonitriles. Further, it turned out that the acyclic bis(monoalkylamino)maleonitriles and macrocyclic bis-(dialkylamino)fumaronitriles are no suitable tools to detect cations by a strong fluorescence enhancement. Further, only the bis(monoalkylamino)maleonitriles, which are bearing a 2-pyridyl unit as an additional complexing unit, are able to selectively recognize copper(II) by a color change from yellow to red. KW - copper KW - fumaronitrile KW - ligands KW - macrocycles KW - maleonitrile Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/hlca.202100028 SN - 1522-2675 VL - 104 IS - 6 SP - e2100028 PB - Wiley-VCH CY - Weinheim ER -