• Harrison, William T. A.
• Foreman, Mark R. St J.
• Silva, Ben M. De
• Plater, John

Abstract

The crystal structures of three compounds formed from the crystallisation of different copper(II) salts (nitrate, acetate and sulphate) with the new ligand 1,3-bis[2-(4-pyridyl)ethyl]-benzene, C20H20N2 (L) are reported. The anion is incorporated into each structure, but it plays a completely different role in each case: [Cu2L4(NO3)(H2O)2]·3(NO3) (1) contains discrete ‘paddlewheel’ bimetallic clusters incorporating a nitrate ion at their centres. [Cu2L(Ac)3(OH)]n (2) contains unusual tetra-metallic clusters in which the acetate ions display three different coordination modes: the L ligands link the clusters into (100) sheets. [CuL2(SO4)]n·2n(H2O) (3) contains looped [0 1 0] chains in which both the L ligands and sulphate ions bridge adjacent metal ions. Crystal data: 1, C80H84Cu2N12O14, Mr = 1564.67, tetragonal, space group I4/m, a = 15.2358 (4) Å, c = 16.5372 (6) Å, V = 3838.8 (2) Å3, Z = 2, R(F) = 0.054, wR(F2) = 0.142. 2, C26H30Cu2N2O7, Mr = 609.60, monoclinic, space group P21/c, a = 15.9076 (6) Å, b = 11.8299 (4) Å, c = 14.4234 (4) Å, β = 107.646 (1)°, V = 2586.56 (15) Å3, Z = 4, R(F) = 0.043, wR(F2) = 0.109. 3, C40H44CuN4O6S, Mr = 772.39, triclinic, space group View the MathML source, a = 10.513 (2) Å, b = 12.925 (4) Å, c = 14.769 (4) Å, α = 91.126 (11)°, β = 109.749 (9)°, γ = 100.658 (9)°, V = 1848.9 (8) Å3, Z = 2, R(F) = 0.108, wR(F2) = 0.274.

Topics

• impedance spectroscopy
• compound
• cluster
• copper
• space group