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The aim of this chapter is to highlight recent metallacrown chemistry that utilizes main group elements in the metallacrown ring. Since the first vanadium-based 9-MC-3 was reported in 1989, metallacrown structures have traditionally included transition metal ions in the ring position of metallamacrocycles. These metals have imparted attractive properties to the metallacrowns such as molecular magnetism, catalysis, molecular recognition, and selective guest binding. While one of the first described metallacrowns in 1993 contained the main group element gallium in the ring positions, a 12-MC-4 dimer, little research was directed to these types of elements until recently. Not only has gallium now been incorporated into the metallacrown ring, but the elements aluminum, indium, tin, lithium, sodium, silicon, and tellurium have also been used to generate archetypal metallacrowns with a M–N–O repeat unit and/or azametallacrowns with a M–N–N repeat unit. The resulting metallacrowns have interesting properties including single-molecule magnetism, luminescence, and bioactivity. This chapter will examine the structural diversity of metallacrowns that can be achieved with main group elements and will feature some of the interesting properties and applications of these molecules.
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Lutter, J.C., Zaleski, C.M. (2022). A Structural Examination of Metallacrowns with Main Group Elements in the Ring Positions. In: Zaleski, C.M. (eds) Advances in Metallacrown Chemistry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08576-5_9
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