Six novel chiral dinuclear Salen complexes[Cu 2 L 1 ·H 2 O(3a),Cu 2 L 2 (3b),Ni 2 L 1 ·2H 2 O(4a),Ni 2 L 2 (4b),Mn 2 Cl 2 L 1 ·H 2 O(5a),Mn 2 Cl 2 L 2 (5b)]have been synthesized(L 1 and L 2 are chiral dimeric Salen ligands with different chain length which were synthesized from(R,R) - diaminocyclohexane,salicylaldehyde,4,4 ’- (1,10 - decaneoxy)sali - cylaldehyde,4,4 ’- (1,6 - hexyloxy)salicylaldehyde).These compounds were charactered by elemental analysis,1 H NMR,FT - IR,UV - Vis and CD spectra.The FT - IR,UV - Vis and CD spectra were discussed and compared with those of monomeric ligand and complex in detail.It was found that the spectra properties of compounds of differ - ent chain length were almost alike,and the properties of dimeric and monomeric compound were similar too.Furthermore Cotton effect and Cotton split of CD spectra of these chiral compounds were explained by the exciton interaction theory.It seemed that the direction of Cotton split depend on the configuration of diaminohexane.(R,R) - diaminohexane determine the chirality of Salen compounds as negative,and the positive and negative compo - nent of Cotton split lie at higher and lower energy respectively.
