carboxylato groups,[2 (µ-0)(µ-CH3C02) 2], form readily in aqueous ammonium acetate con-
taining solutions using mononuclear complexes of the type LMX3 as starting materials. 22· 3
L represents a suitable tridentate N-(1)(a) Ruhr-Universitát Bochum,(b) Texas A&M
University,(c) Universitát Heidelberg. donor ligand, M has been iron (III) 2 or manganese (III),
3 re-spectively, and X" is a unidentate ligand such as chloride or bromide. Studies using the …