Hexa- and octanuclear copper() complexes with a tetraeicosaaza amine macrocycle

One hexa- and two octanuclear Cu( ii ) complexes were synthesised from different metal salts and a very large (8 + 8) tetraeicosaaza macrocycle. These nitrate, chloride and sulphate coordination compounds were characterised by taking elemental analysis, spectroscopy, crystallography and magnetic susceptibility measurements. Their crystal structures revealed different interesting coordination modes of Cu( ii ) cations and nuclearity in these centrosymmetric complexes. For the sulphate complex two different, homo- vs. heterochiral, arrangements of the same macrocycle L3 around the same Cu(II) cations take place. The structures of multinuclear Cu( ii ) complexes display interesting coordination modes. A sulphate derivative shows unusual arrangements of a macrocycle around Cu( ii ) cations.