TY - JOUR
T1 - A new tetranuclear copper(II) Schiff base complex containing Cu 4O4 cubane core
T2 - Structural and spectral characterizations
AU - Shit, Shyamapada
AU - Rosair, Georgina
AU - Mitra, Samiran
PY - 2011/4/5
Y1 - 2011/4/5
N2 - A new tetra-nuclear coordination complex [Cu4(HL)4] (1) containing Cu4O4 cubane core has been synthesized by using Schiff base ligand [(OH)C6H4CHNC(CH 3)(CH2OH)2] (H3L), obtained by the 1:1 condensation of 2-amino-2-methyl-1,3-propanediol with salicylaldehyde and thoroughly characterized by micro-analytical, FT-IR, UV-Vis, thermal and room temperature magnetic susceptibility measurements. Structural characterization of the complex has been done by single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. Structural elucidation reveals versatile coordination modes for two identical alkoxo oxygen atoms of the Schiff base ligand; one in its deprotonated form exhibits µ3-bridging to bind three similar copper(II) centers whilst the protonated one remains as monodentate or non-coordinating. Structural analysis also shows that the Cu4O4 cubane core in 1 consists of four µ3-alkoxo oxygen bridged copper(II) atoms giving an approximately cubic array of alternating oxygen atoms and copper(II) atoms where the metal centers display both distorted square pyramidal and distorted octahedral geometries. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
AB - A new tetra-nuclear coordination complex [Cu4(HL)4] (1) containing Cu4O4 cubane core has been synthesized by using Schiff base ligand [(OH)C6H4CHNC(CH 3)(CH2OH)2] (H3L), obtained by the 1:1 condensation of 2-amino-2-methyl-1,3-propanediol with salicylaldehyde and thoroughly characterized by micro-analytical, FT-IR, UV-Vis, thermal and room temperature magnetic susceptibility measurements. Structural characterization of the complex has been done by single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. Structural elucidation reveals versatile coordination modes for two identical alkoxo oxygen atoms of the Schiff base ligand; one in its deprotonated form exhibits µ3-bridging to bind three similar copper(II) centers whilst the protonated one remains as monodentate or non-coordinating. Structural analysis also shows that the Cu4O4 cubane core in 1 consists of four µ3-alkoxo oxygen bridged copper(II) atoms giving an approximately cubic array of alternating oxygen atoms and copper(II) atoms where the metal centers display both distorted square pyramidal and distorted octahedral geometries. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
KW - Characterizations
KW - Cubane core
KW - Tetranuclear copper(II) complex
KW - X-ray structure
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U2 - 10.1016/j.molstruc.2011.02.003
DO - 10.1016/j.molstruc.2011.02.003
M3 - Article
SN - 0022-2860
VL - 991
SP - 79
EP - 83
JO - Journal of Molecular Structure
JF - Journal of Molecular Structure
IS - 1-3
ER -