Abstract
In pursuit of mimicking the ubiquitous 2H1C motif in mononuclear non-heme iron enzymes, two new bioinspired N,N,O phenolate ligands, BenzImNNO and ImPh2NNO, are synthesised and their coordination chemistry with zinc(II) and iron(II) is explored. BenzImNNO coordinates by means of an anionic κ3-N,N,O donor set and readily forms homoleptic bisligated complexes,
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