Synthesis and crystal structure of two new heteropolynuclear [NiIICdIICdIINiII] and [NiIICdIINiII] Schiff base complexes involving bridging chlorine and oxygen functions

Author(s)
Debasis Bandyopadhyay, Tapan Kumar Karmakar, Guillaume Pilet, Michel Fleck
Abstract

Two new heteropolynuclear Schiff base complexes, [Ni2Cd2L2Cl2(µ-Cl)2] (1) and [Ni2CdL'2Cl(H2O)]ClO4·H2O (2) where L = [N,N'-bis(2-hydroxyacetophenylidene)]propane-1,2-diamine and L' = [N,N'-bis(2-hydroxypropiophenylidene)]propane-1,2-diamine, have been synthesized by refluxing equimolar amounts of nickel perchlorate, cadmium chloride and the respective tetradentate Schiff base ligand, H2L or H2L' in methanol medium. The complexes have been characterized by microanalytical, spectroscopic, single crystal X-ray diffraction and other physicochemical studies. Structural studies on 1 reveal the presence of a bis(heterodinuclear) [NiIICdII]2 unit in which the two central cadmium ions are doubly chloro-bridged with each other and each of them is connected to a nickel(II) center through two phenolate oxygen bridges. In contrast, complex 2 contains a heterotrinuclear [NiIICdIINiII] unit in which the central cadmium ion is connected to two nickel(II) centers through two doubly bridging phenolate oxygen atoms. The Cd(II) ions in 1 and 2 adopt distorted, square pyramidal (CdO2Cl3) and octahedral (CdO5Cl) geometries respectively. On the other hand, the Ni(II) ions in both 1 and 2 assume the same coordination geometry, i.e. a distorted square planar (NiO2N2) arrangement. Intermolecular C-H?Cl or O-H?Cl and O-H?O hydrogen bonding interactions are operative in the complexes to build up 2D supramolecular structures in their solid states.

Organisation(s)
Department of Mineralogy and Crystallography
External organisation(s)
Bankura Christian College, Dukhulal Nibaran Chandra College, Université Claude-Bernard-Lyon-I
Journal
Polyhedron
Volume
30
Pages
2678-2683
No. of pages
6
ISSN
0277-5387
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2011.07.026
Publication date
2011
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
105113 Crystallography
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/83c8dd83-e64c-4edf-952a-32e1c42dafe1