“…The mechanism proposed for the intermetallic Ntransfer relies on three steps: (i) formation of a bimetallic µ-nitrido-bridged precursor, (ii) bielectronic transfer and (iii) dissociation of the resulting complex. [60][61][62] As Cr III is known to be inert, the first step could prove to be problematic in this case, [60] but we were also not successful in employing this route with the more labile Mn III centre in (tba) 4 [63] We conclude that, in order to favour the second step, more study of the electronic properties of the chosen POM systems will be required by analogy to previous studies on porphyrin systems. [64,65] Fortunately, we were more successful with the synthetic route devised by Bendix et al, [24] who showed that a variety of (nitrido)chromium complexes can be easily synthesized by the reaction of [CrCl 3 (thf) 3 ] with [(salen)MnN], which generates a source of the {CrN} 2+ function in situ, [66] and subsequent complexation with a polydentate ligand.…”