“…40 It is able to form very stable, distorted, octahedral bis complexes with many divalent and trivalent metal cations of the first transition metal series. 37 To date, first row transition metal octahedral complexes containing two such ligands of chromium(III), 41 manganese(II), 41,42 iron(II), 41,43 iron(III), 41,43 cobalt(II), 41,44 cobalt(III), 38 nickel(II), 39,45 nickel(III), 41,46 copper(II), 39 and zinc(II) 47 have been isolated and characterized. Their redox potentials were readily measured by cyclic voltammetry, 41 and the electron-transfer self-exchange rate constants of the M(TACN) 2 +3/+2 couples were determined and successfully interpreted.…”