The crystals of a perylene complex with the polymeric cluster containing [Mn6O2(O2CCHCl2)10(H2O)2] units assembled by 3,10-perylenequinone bridges, {[Mn6O2(O2CCHCl2)10(H2O)2(C20H10O2)]2n路(C20H12)n} (I), were obtained in the reaction of [Mn12O12(O2CCHCl2)16(H2O)4] with perylene. Unlike the Mn12 oxodichloroacetate cluster, the reaction of the Mn12 oxobenzoate cluster, [Mn12O12(O2CPh)16(H2O)4], with perylene does not occur. However, it turned out that the crystals isolated from the reaction are a new Mn12 oxobenzoate cluster containing three molecules of coordinated H2O and solvate molecules of hexane, [Mn12O12(O2CC6H5)16(H2O)3]路2C6H12 (II). Crystal structures of complexes I and II as well as the magnetic properties of the former were studied.
![Graphical abstract: A perylene complex with a one-dimensional coordination polymer containing [Mn6O2(CHCl2COO)10(H2O)2] cluster units linked by 3,10-perylenequinone bridges](http://hg.y866.cn/compound/lib/scimg/usr/1/C6NJ03097A.jpg)