The coordination chemistry of the triplesalophen ligands H 6 baron R (R = Me, Cl, Br) with Cu II and Ni II has been studied. The triplesalophen ligand system is an extension of the triplesalen ligand system and is composed of a bridging phloroglucinol ring with three meta-phenylene salophen coordination compartments. The completely sp 2 hybridized backbone of the triplesalophen ligands should favor a more planar molecular structure of the trinuclear complexes in comparison to the triplesalen complexes. Reaction of the ligands with the metal acetates in n-butanol/CHCl 3 provided the complexes [(baron Me )Ni 3 ]a, [(baron Cl )Ni 3 ]a, [(baron Br )-Ni 3 ]a, [(baron Me )Cu 3 ], [(baron Cl )Cu 3 ], and [(baron Br )Cu 3 ]. For the Ni II complexes, recrystallization from pyridine or performing the reaction in pyridine provided the compounds [(baron Me )Ni 3 ]b and [(baron Cl )Ni 3 ]b, whereas for the bromo derivative the complex [(baron Br ){Ni(py) 2 } 2 Ni] with one fourcoordinate and two six-coordinate Ni II ions have been obtained. In contrast, for the Cu II complexes, two [(baron R ){Cu(py)} 2 Cu] (R = Me, Cl, Br) units dimerize via [a] Lehrstuhl für Anorganische Chemie I, 5934bridging of a coordinated phenolate. The structural analysis reveals a strong tendency for π stacking of the trinuclear complexes resulting in a planarization of the complexes. The trinuclear triplesalophen complexes exhibit the four signatures of heteroradialene formation, which were extracted from single-crystal X-ray diffraction, NMR, FTIR, and UV/ Vis spectroscopy. Analysis of these experimental data with regard to the respective data of the free ligands H 6 baron R (R = Me, Cl, Br) and the mononuclear analogue H 2 carl Cl and its complexes [(carl Cl )Ni] and [(carl Cl )Cu] clearly demonstrates that the heteroradialene resonance structure, which has been established as the dominant resonance structure for the free ligands, still has a strong but smaller contribution in the trinuclear triplesalophen complexes. The magnetic properties demonstrate weak intramolecular ferromagnetic interactions mediated by the triplesalophen ligands in the trinuclear Cu II 3 complexes, which are experimentally difficult to determine due to intermolecular antiferromagnetic interactions of the same order of magnitude. molecular structures of the trinuclear Ni II 3 complexes [2] and the trinuclear Cu II 3 complexes [11] of the tert-butyl ligand H 6 talen tBu 2 exhibit a strong ligand folding along the central O-N vectors, resulting in overall bowl-shaped molecular structures. This ligand folding preorganizes the axial coordination sites of the metal salen subunits for the complementary binding of a hexacyanometallate. In combination with a strong tendency of two [(talen tBu 2 )M t 3 ] m+ complexes to dimerize due to van der Waals interaction of the tertbutyl phenyl groups, [12] a high driving force results for the formation of heptanuclear complexes [M t 6 M c ] n+ (= [{(talen tBu 2 )M t 3 } 2 {M c (CN) 6 }] n+ ) by the supramolecular assembly of two [(talen tBu ...