Nature uses hydrogen bonds to regulate a variety of metal-based reactions. These effects are emulated in the stabilization of trigonal-bipyramidal, paramagnetic Co-OH complexes such as the mono- or dianionic redox-active complex 1 by use of a new hydrogen-bonding ligand.
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Hammes et al. (1999) studied this question.