
%0 Journal Article
%A Corrigan, MF 
%A Murray, KS 
%A West, BO 
%A Pilbrow, JR 
%T Synthesis and electron spin resonance study of a tetradentate copper(II) mercaptobenzaldimine complex
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1977/11/01
%V 30
%N 11
%P 2455-2463
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9772455
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9772455 
%X The X-band e.s.r, spectrum of a copper(II) Schiff-base complex, 2,2?- [ethylenebis(nitrilomethylidyne)]-bis(benzenethiolato-S,N)copper(II) (Cu(mben)), has been determined in frozen toluene-chloroform solutions. The complicated line shape has been simulated by a computer program incorporating symmetry around the copper lower than axial, together with a nitrogen hyperfine pattern calculated for two cis nitrogen atoms. The e.s.r parameters are compared with those obtained for two other thio Schiff-base chelates and with those for the salicylaldimine analogue, Cu(salen). Metal-ligand covalency parameters estimated from the e.s.r. parameters are discussed briefly. 
