Departament de Química Inorgànica, Instituto de Ciencia Molecular, Universitat de València, 46100 Burjassot, València, Spain.
Abstract:
An octanuclear copper(II) complex possessing a dimer-of-tetramers structure self-assembles from a binuclear oxamatocopper(II) metallacryptand of the meso-helicate type; its magnetic behaviour is consistent with its unique double-propeller molecular topology.