Trinuclear Copper(II) Complex, Super-Exchange Interactions, Antiferromagnetic Coupling[Cu, (L)3].3(C1C>4) (LH = l,3-diaminopropan-2-ol) was synthesized and its crystal structure determined. It crystallizes in the triclinic space group P I with a = 10.504(2), b = 10.856(2), c = 12.519(2) A, a = 74.41(1), ß = 70.60(1), 7 = 63.60(1)°, V = 1193.6(3) A3, Z = 2. The structure consists of trimeric [Cu3(L)3]+3 units and three perchlorate anions in the asymmetric unit. In the compound three copper(II) ions are linked by l,3-diamino-2-propanol molecules in such a way that an almost equilateral triangle is formed. The coordination spheres of the three copper(II) ions are slightly different from each other. The coordination geometry of Cul is a distorted square pyramid, and that of Cu2 is almost square planar while that of Cu3 is tetrahedrally distorted square planar. The copper(II) centers are separated by average 3.481(2) A and antiferromagnetically coupled (-J = 100 cm-1), which follows from temperature-dependent magnetic susceptibility measurements in the temperature range 4.4 to 299 K. The average Cu-O-Cu angle is 128.1(1)° in the super-exchange pathway. As the temperature is increased, the magnetic moment rises from 1.41 ^b at 4.4 K to 2.22 ^b at 299 K. In the \(T ) curve no characteristic maximum was observed. The magnetic super-exchange interaction for the title compound is due to the effective overlap of the magnetic orbitals (dx2 _y2) with orbitals of bridging alkoxide oxygen atoms