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Ten manganese(I) tricarbonyl diimine complexes bound to variably functionalised 5‐aryl‐tetrazolato ligands were prepared, and their photochemical properties were investigated. Upon exposure to light at 365 nm, each complex decomposed to its free diimine and tetrazolato ligands, simultaneously dissociating three CO ligands, as evidenced by changes in the IR spectra of the irradiated complexes over time. The anti‐bacterial properties of one of these complexes were tested against Escherichia coli. While the complex displayed no effect on the bacterial growth in the dark, pre‐irradiated solutions inhibited bacterial growth. Comparative studies revealed that the antibacterial properties originate from the presence of free 1,10‐phenanthroline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The preparation of discrete tetranuclear lanthanide/alkali metal (Ae) assemblies bearing a tribenzoylmethane ligand (LH) is discussed. These assemblies have the general formula [Ln(Ae·HOEt)(L)4]2, where Ln3+ = Gd3+, Tb3+, Dy3+, Ho3+and Ae+ = Na+, K+, Rb+. The coordination geometries of the lanthanide species were analyzed and compared, revealing a trend between an eight-coordinate square antiprism and triangular dodecahedron dependent on the nature of lanthanide, alkali metal, and lattice solvent. The potassium-containing analogs were also analyzed for their magnetic susceptibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Structure determinations for some Co(III) complexes of simple derivatives of the cage hexamine 3,6,10,13,16,19-hexa-azabicyclo[6.6.6]icosane ("sarcophagine") show that there is no evidence that the H-bonding involving the NH centres of the complex cations is influenced by electronic effects due to the substituents. "H-bond chelation" of chloride anions or water molecules results in retention of the symmetrical lel3 conformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Single crystal X-ray structure determinations have previously been described for picrate salts of a variety of nitrogen bases. Herein, these have been extended to encompass monoprotonated mono- and oligo-dentate cyclic nitrogen-donor ligand systems derived from pyridine, some via saturation (piperidine and morpholine) and others via lateral extension of the aromatic system (2,2'-bipyridine, 1,10-phenanthroline, 2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline, bis(2-pyridyl)amine, 2,2':6',2"-terpyridine, and 8-hydroxyquinoline). Hydrogen-bonding interactions are dominant determinants of the structures, complemented by or in competition with parallel stacking of anion and (aromatic) base planes. Furthermore, nitro⋯nitro, nitro⋯7i and phenoxy-0⋯7i inter-species contacts play a significant role in the crystal packing. It also appears that cation...anion interactions arising from CH(adjacent to NH)⋯O(o-nitro) interactions are more important than the available secondary bifurcating component associated with any NH⋯O(o-nitro) approach, resulting, in many cases, in a bidentate NH⋯HC base approach to an (ON)O⋯O⋯O(NO) triadic array. The nature of the anion-cation interactions and their importance are explored using the Hirshfeld surface method. The precision of the structure determinations establishes the quinonoid form of the picrate to be a widespread contributor. Theoretical calculations on picric acid and the parent pyridinium-picrate ion-pair confirm the energetic favourability of the base-triad approach and the dominance of the quinonoid resonance form. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

[RuCl(arene)(μ-Cl)]2 dimers were treated in a 1:2 molar ratio with sodium or thallium salts of bis- and tris(pyrazolyl)borate ligands [Na(Bp [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A quaterphenylterpyridine ligand (qptpy) with the rodlike quaterphenyl unit attached in the 4′-position has been synthesised by a Pd-catalysed Suzuki cross-coupling reaction. A crystal structure determination on the complex [Zn(qptpy)Cl2]·dmf (dmf = dimethylformamide) has shown the ligand to be bound in the expected N3-tridentate manner to the essentially trigonal-bipyramidal dichloro metal ion, with the quaterphenyl substituents involving a twisted array of the separate phenyl groups and the shortest contacts between aromatic groups involving just the polar terpyridine head groups to give an infinite, offset face-to-face (OFF) π-stacking array. A comparison is made with the structures of the bis(ligand) complexes of Zn(ClO4)2 and Cd(ClO4)2 with the bromobiphenylterpyridine ligand (Brbptpy) synthesised as an intermediate for the formation of qptpy. A study of the absorption and emission spectra of qptpy and a range of its metal-ion complexes has shown that the ligand provides a ratiometric fluorescence response for both ZnII and CdII. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The title compound, [Co(C7H3N2O6)2(C2H6OS)2(H2O)2], has been prepared and its structure established by an X-ray structure determination in order to assist the modelling of processes of chemisorption of organic salts formed by di­nitro­benzoic acids (DNBH) and secondary amines ( R2NH) by metal surfaces. The 2,4-DNB ions and di­methyl sulfoxide (DMSO) mol­ecules behave as monodentate ligands coord­inated to the Co atom through their O atoms. These ligands, together with two mol­ecules of water, form a slightly distorted octahedral coordination environment for the Co atom which is disposed at a centre of symmetry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reactions of the lanthanide(iii) picrates (picrate = 2,4,6-trinitrophenoxide = pic) with 1,10-phenanthroline (phen) and 2,2′:6′,2′′-terpyridine (terpy) in a 1 : 2 molar ratio have provided crystals suitable for X-ray structure determinations in instances predominantly involving the lighter lanthanides. In all, the aza-aromatic ligands chelate the lanthanide ion, none being found as 'free' ligands within the lattice. The complexes of 1,10-phenanthroline have been characterised in two forms, one unsolvated (Ln = La, Sm, Eu; monoclinic, C 2/ c , Z 8), one an acetonitrile monosolvate (Ln = Gd; monoclinic, P 21/ a , Z 4), the latter being the only previously known form (with Ln = La). In both forms, the LnIII is nine-coordinate, in an approximately tricapped trigonal-prismatic environment, with two picrate ligands chelating through phenoxide and 2-nitro group oxygen atoms, the third being bound through phenoxide-O only. The 2,2′:6′,2′′-terpyridine complexes, all acetonitrile monosolvates defined for Ln = La, Gd, Er, and Y (monoclinic, C 2/ c , Z 4), are ionic, one picrate having been displaced from the primary coordination sphere. For Ln = La, the two bound picrates are again chelating, making the LaIII 10-coordinate in a distorted bicapped square-antiprismatic environment but in the other species they are bound through phenoxide-O only, making the LnIII ions eight-coordinate in a distorted square-antiprismatic environment. Stacked arrays of the ligands can be found in both series of complexes, with intramolecular picrate–picrate and picrate–aza-aromatic stacks being prominent features. Structure determinations on complexes of lanthanide(III) picrates with aza-aromatic ligands provide examples of various stacking arrays. The chain of [La(terpy)2(pic)2]+ cations (shown in space-filling mode) present in the lattice of [La(terpy)2(pic)2](pic)·CH3CN involves both intra- and intermolecular heterogeneous stacks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The carboxamide-O donor ligands dimethylacetamide (dma) and N -methylpyrrolidinone (nmp) form complexes of lanthanide picrates, Ln(pic)3, of stoichiometry Ln(pic)3(carboxamide)3 in a remarkable variety of phases. Complexes [Ln(pic)3(dma)3], Ln = La, Ce, Nd, Sm, Gd, Yb, Lu, and Y, adopt the 9-coordinate molecular form of tricapped trigonal-prismatic coordination geometry seen to predominate, as two stereoisomers, in related species involving dimethylsulfoxide (dmso), trimethylphosphate (tmp), and hexamethylphosphoramide (hmpa) but as four different phases (depending on Ln), none of which is the same as for the previously known La complex. For Ln = Pr, 9-coordinate species of composition [Pr(pic)3(dma)2(alcohol)] (alcohol = ethanol and propan-2-ol) have been characterised and a low quality determination indicates that a similar species (with propan-2-ol) is formed by Y. For nmp, the composition [Ln(pic)3(nmp)3] is maintained across the series for Ln = La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Gd, Er, Tm, Yb, and Lu but 9-coordination is not for Ln = Er, Tm, Yb, and Lu. A decreased coordination there is a result of one or two picrate ligands acting as phenoxide-O donors only, a marked contrast with the analogous Ln(pic)3 complexes with dmso, tmp, hmpa, and dma, where picrate chelation is universal, but with some parallel to related ScIII complexes. Several polymorph pairs can be identified among the nmp complexes. Structural studies of the adducts of lanthanide picrates with dimethylacetamide (dma) and N-methylpyrrolidinone (nmp) add further variety to the nature of simple O-donor ligand complexes of these picrates. Polymorphism is readily detected in the dma complexes, while, with the heavier lanthanides, nmp causes partial detachment of the picrate ligands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Adducts of the form Ln(pic)3(tmp)3 (Ln = lanthanide(iii); pic = picrate = 2,4,6-trinitrophenoxide; tmp = trimethylphosphate, (MeO)3PO) have been prepared for extremal Ln = La, Lu and some intermediate members, also Y, and characterised by single crystal X-ray structure determinations as unsolvated, mononuclear, molecular species. The lanthanide atom has nine-coordinate, tri-capped trigonal prismatic stereochemistry in all cases, the picrate components behaving as O , O ′-bidentate ligands chelating through the phenoxy- and an adjacent O -nitro oxygen atom, thus: [Ln(tmp- O)3(pic- O , O ′)3]. Two isomeric forms are found, one mer in which the three unidentate tmp- O ligands coordinate in cis -sites spanning the upper and lower triangles and a capping site of the coordination sphere, and fac , in which all three unidentate ligands occupy the mutually cis -sites of one triangular face. The mer isomer has been described as an isomorphous series in a monoclinic P 21/ c , Z 4, form, for Ln = La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd, Lu, and Y, presumptively accessible for the full gamut of Ln. The fac -isomer also crystallises in a monoclinic P 21/ c form, Z 8, two independent molecules of similar stereochemistry here comprising the asymmetric unit and described for Ln = Eu, Lu(isomorphous); it has also been described in a triclinic P CH19176_IE1.gif , Z 2 form for Ln = La. Trimethylphosphate (tmp) is the first of a series of related O-donor solvates of lanthanide(III) picrates to give isomeric mer- and fac- [Ln(pic)3(tmp)3] complexes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Addition of various oxygen-donor ligands (L, all dipolar, aprotic solvents), to a solution of hydrated scandium picrate in weakly coordinating solvents (S), has yielded several crystalline adducts of the form Sc(pic)3(L) m (· n S) in which all ligands L are coordinated, subsequently characterised by a series of single crystal X-ray studies. For L = dmso, m = 3 and the picrate anions are all bound as phenoxide-O donor units, while for nmp, dma, tmp, and hmpa, m = 2 and one of the bound picrates becomes bidentate through phenoxide- and nitro-O donation. For L = ompa, m = 2 and two picrate ligands are bound through phenoxide-O while one is displaced from the primary coordination sphere. All complexes contain six-coordinate ScIII, confirming that this coordination number is a consequence of ligand bulk. Six-coordination of ScIII is observed throughout in crystalline adducts of scandium picrate with dmso, dma, nmp, tmp, hmpa, and ompa, although with variations in the adduct stoichiometry and the coordination mode of picrate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Highlights • Survey of 39 Cu and Ag complexes of dppm and alkynes or diynes. • Triangular Cu, Ag clusters containing alkynyl, diynyl groups show significant variability. • Structural systematics of bonding of alkynyl, diynyl in Cu, Ag complexes. • Discussion of steric effects of ligands on molecular structures. • Conformational effects of dppm ligands. Abstract In this review the molecular structures of a series of trinuclear alkynyl and diynyl Group 11 cations [{M 3 (μ-dppm) 3 }(X) n ](3−n)+ (M = Cu, Ag; n = 1, 2; where X is an alkynyl or diynyl group, an inorganic anion or solvent) are considered from the points of view of (i) the dimensions and geometries of the M 3 (P–P) 3 cores, (ii) the conformations of the dppm ligands, and (iii) the attachment of the alkynyl and diynyl ligands. In the crowded [M 3 (μ-dppm) 3 ]3+ core, the dppm ligands are arranged so that there is always one CH 2 group up and two down, to give pseudo mirror symmetry perpendicular to the M 3 plane (crystallographic in some cases). Attachment of the alkynyl or diynyl substituent(s) occurs roughly normal to the M 3 plane; according to their perpendicularity, the C(1) atom may be μ 2 or μ 3. In most cases where only one alkynyl or diynyl ligand is present, a second ligand is also attached to the M 3 core. Unusual and interesting dispositions/conformations of the dppm ligands are widespread, among the mono–diynyl complexes in particular, whereby some phosphorus donor atoms lie at unusual distances out of the M 3 planes, a concomitant of strong agostic interactions between phenyl H atoms and the atoms of the open M 3 face, and weak M⋯M interactions. With one X group, C H⋯M interactions persist on the other face, with C H⋯X interactions with the alkyne affecting the inclination of the alkyne and the conformation of the Ph rings. With two substituents (one of which may be a loosely bound anion), similar interactions may occur, accompanied by twisting of the dppm chelate ring to displace P atoms from the M 3 plane. These factors possibly inhibit formation of the bis(diyndiyl) complexes, which are only obtained under more strongly basic conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]