Synthesis and Crystal Structure of a Salicylaldehyde Ethylene Diamine Schiff Base Manganese (Ⅲ) Complex

1 INTRODUCTION Manganese is one of several first-row transition metal elements that have been found to play an important role in most biological systems. Perhaps the best known is in the process of photosynthesis during which water is oxidized to yield dioxygen, and it is generally believed that the process is related to a tetranuclear manganese cluster1]. Other aspects of biological chemistry of manganese, such as three mononuclear manganese enzymes: manganese superoxide dismutase, per…

Synthesis and Crystal Structure of a Salicylaldehyde Ethylene Diamine Schiff Base Manganese (Ⅲ) Complex

The title compound, Mn(salen)(salicyl)]?.5H2O ( H2salen = N, N?ethylenebis- (salicylideneaminato), Hsalicyl = salicylaldehyde), has been obtained from the reaction system containing (o-HOC6H4CH=NCH2)2, o-HOC6H4CHO and Mn(ClO4)2?H2O in EtOH solvent and structurally characterized. It crystallizes in the monoclinic, space group P21/c with a = 13.0548(4), b = 13.9254(4), c = 11.6630(1) ? b = 105.199(2)? V = 2046.09(9) ?, Z = 4, C23H22MnN2O5.5, Mr = 469.37, Dc = 1.524 g/cm3, F(000) = 972, m = 0.687mm-1 . R = 0.0630 and wR = 0.1142 for 1901 observed reflections with I >2(I). The Mn(Ⅲ) is coordinated by N(1), N(2), O(1) and O(2) of the Schiff base ligand and phenolate O atom of salicylaldehyde with O(3)Mn distance of 2.050(4) , forming a relatively rare five-coordinate square-pyramidal structure.