Palladium(II)–Copper(II) Assembling with Bis(2-pyridylcarbonyl)amidate and Bis(oxamate) Type Ligands

Five new complexes of formula K4[Pd2(mpba)2] · 4H2O (1), {[K4(H2O)(dmso)][Pd2(mpba)2]} (2), {[Cu(bpca)]4[Pd2(mpba)2]} · 6H2O (3), {[Cu(bpca)]2[Pd(opba)]} · 1.75dmso · 0.25H2O (4), {[Cu(bpca)]2[Pd(opba)]}n · ndmso (5) [H4mpba =1,3-phenylenebis(oxamic acid), H4opba = 1,2-phenylenebis(oxamic acid), Hbpca = bis(2-pyridylcarbonyl)amide, and dmso = dimethyl sulfoxide] have been prepared and investigated by infrared spectroscopy, thermal analysis, single crystal X-ray diffraction, and magnetic susceptibility techniques. The structure of 2 consists of a [Pd2(mpba)2]4– anionic entity in which the palladium(II) cations are coordinated by two mpba ligands resulting in a dipalladium(II) unit that acts as a ligand toward potassium(I) cations leading to a neutral three-dimensional network. Compound 3 is a neutral hexanuclear complex where the dinuclear [Pd2(mpba)2]4– unit adopts a tetrakis(bidentate) coordination mode toward four [Cu(bpca)]+ end-cap entities. This compound can be viewed as a “dimer of trimers” in which...