STUDY ON THE STRUCTURES OF COORDINATION COMPOUNDS OF N-(ortho-METHYL)-AND N-(ortho-METHOXY)-PHENYL IMINODIACETATO-Cu(Ⅱ)

The coordination compounds,{CuCH_3C_6H_4N(CH_2COO)_2]}.2H_2O and{CuCH_3OC_6H_4N(CH_2COO)_2]}.2H_2O,have been prepared and its crystal struc-tures determined.The final discrepancy factors are R=0.052,R_w=0.061 for(I)and R=0.052,R_w=0.039 for(Ⅱ).The geometry of the coordination poly-hedron with Cu(Ⅱ)is a distorted tetragonal pyramid for(Ⅰ)and an unsym-metrical and extended tetragonal bipyramid for(Ⅱ),respectively.The re-sults of EHMO calculations indicate that the ligand mainly provided thefield with very few of its electrons being coordinated to the central atom.