The Structure of Multinuclear Copper (II) Hexafluoroacetylacetone

Hydrolysis of the 4-nuclear [Cu(hfac)(MeO)]4 complex (where hfac is the hexafluoroacetylacetone ion) can be used as a convenient way to obtain the 11-nuclear complex [Cu11(hfac)10(OH)8(O)2] · 2MePh. The structure of the latter is determined using X-ray diffraction.