Hydrogen-bonded Networks in Crown Ether Complexes of Hydrated Metal Ions |
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| Authors: | Peter C. Junk Susan M. Lynch Brian J. McCool |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Chemistry , James Cook University of North Queensland , Townsville, Queensland, 4811, Australia |
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| Abstract: | Abstract The hydrated metal nitrates (M(NO3)3.6H2O, M[dbnd]Co, Ni, Cu, Zn and Cd) have been crystallised from water in the presence of 18-crown-6 and their structures determined by X-ray crystallography. In the case of copper, a pseudo four-coordinate square planar complex resides in an extended six-coordinate octahedral array which is further bound in a single-stranded one-dimensional hydrogen bonded polymeric mode. For M[dbnd]Co,Ni,Zn and Cd isomorphous complexes are isolated where the octahedral [M(H2O)5(NO3)+ cation resides in a two-dimensional polymeric network through hydrogen bonds between the water ligands and either the crown ether oxygens or unbound nitrate ions or water molecules. |
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| Keywords: | Crown ethers hydrogen bonding crystallography |
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