Synthesis,spectroscopy and cyclic voltammetry of cobalt(III) complexes with 5-methyl-3-formylpyrazole N(4)-cyclohexylthiosemicarbazone (HMPz4Cy): X-ray crystal structure of [Co(MPz4Cy)2]Cl · 2.75H2O

The coordination behaviour of the novel ligand, HMPz4Cy, is reported, together with solid state isolation of its diamagnetic cobalt(III) complexes, [Co(MPz4Cy)₂]X · nH₂O (X = Cl, Br, NO₃, ClO₄ and BF₄). I.r. and ¹H-n.m.r. data for the free ligand and its Co^III complexes confirm that the ligand, HMPz4Cy, acts as a uninegative anion with NNS tridentate function via the pyrazolyl nitrogen (tertiary), azomethine nitrogen and thiol sulphur. Electronic spectra (both solid and solution) are commensurate with a distorted octahedral environment for the reported Co^III species. Cyclic voltammograms of Co^III complexes indicate a quasireversible Co⁺³/Co⁺² couple. X-ray crystallography of a representative species, [Co(MPz4Cy)₂]Cl · 2.75H₂O (C2, monoclinic), has shown unambiguously that the two ligands are orthogonally coordinated to the central Co^III ion with both the thiolato sulphurs and both pyrazolyl nitrogen atoms in cis positions.