Mm. Aly, Features of a flexible backbone in the coordination compounds of a dioximeligand: The characterization of supramolecular and dinuclear metal complexes, J COORD CH, 47(4), 1999, pp. 505-521
The grinding of a 2:1 molar ratio mixture of isonitrosoacetylacetone and 1,
3-diaminopropan-2-ol led to formation of the tribasic ligand (H3L), (1) wit
h two oxime groups and a flexible alcoholic backbone. The 1 :2 molar ratio
reaction of (1) with CuX2 produced the planar dinuclear complexes LCu2(X) n
H(2)O; X = acetate (2), phenylacetate (3), formate (4), monochloroacetate (
5), dichloroacetate (6), trichloroacetate (7), benzoate (8), and p-hydroxyb
enzoate (9); n = 1 for (2) and (8); n = 2 for (3)-(7); and n=4 for (9). The
copper(II) ions are bridged by the carboxylate and the alcoholic oxygen. T
he strong antiferromagnetic interactions in (2)-(9) are impeded in (5)-(7)
by the chloroacetate bridge withdrawing electron density from the carboxyla
te. The latter bridge is replaced by picrate in the 1:1 molar ratio reactio
n of (2) with picric acid (10). The 1:1 molar ratio reaction of (1) with co
pper(II) acetate produced the tetranuclear [HLCu](2)[LCu2(OAc)] . 5H(2)O (1
1), whereas the 2:1 molar ratio reaction, similar to the reaction which led
to (8), produced HLCu (12). The latter complex reacted (1 : 1 molar ratio)
with either copper(II) acetate or nickel(II) acetate to produce complexes
(2) and the heterodinuclear LNiCu(OAc) . 2H(2)O (13), respectively. Similar
reactions with (11) gave the same complexes (2) and (13). The acid adducts
of (9) with p-hydroxybenzoic acid (14) and LCu2(X) . HX (15); X = p-aminob
enzoic acid were isolated. The cobalt(II) analogue of the mononuclear (12),
HLCo . 2H(2)O (16) was obtained from the 1:1 molar reaction of (1) with co
balt(II) acetate. The supramolecular structure of (11), (12) and (16) took
place via intermolecular hydrogen bonding of the alcoholic proton with the
oximato oxygen of the adjacent molecule which mediated electron density and
allowed for a magnetic exchange interaction. The suggested structures of t
he ligand and metal complexes are in accordance with analytical, spectral a
nd magnetic moment data.