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INORGANICA CHIMICA ACTA
Volume 363, Issue 12, Pages 3055-3060Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.ica.2010.03.051
Keywords
X-ray crystal structures; Nickel complex; L-Histidine; H-bonded network
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- CSIR of New Delhi
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Four different mononuclear octahedral Ni(II) complexes with protonated and deprotonated form of the same ligand have been synthesized by controlling reaction conditions and structurally characterized. The complexes are [Ni(HLL-his)(benzoate)(MeOH)] (1), [Ni(HLL-his)(SCN)(MeOH)] (2), [Ni(HLL-his) 2] (3) and [Ni(LL-his)(imidazole)(2)] (4) where H2LL-his is (S)-2-(2-hydroxybenzylamino)-3-(1H-imidazol-4-yl)-propionic acid. The ligand behaves as a monobasic tetradentate ligand in 1 and 2, monobasic tridentate ligand in 3 and dibasic tetradentate ligand in 4. Ni(II) coordinated phenolic proton of the ligand in the complexes 1-2 shows strong intra-molecular H-bonding with benzoate in 1 and lattice water in 2, whereas 3 shows intermolecular H-bonding between uncoordinated phenols with neighbouring carboxylate. The pH titration of the complexes revealed that metal coordination and H-bond in complexes 1 and 2 considerably lowers the acidity of ligand phenol (pK(a) 6.8 and 7.0 respectively) compared to phenol (pK(a) 10). The complex 4 does not show any proton loss due to the absence of phenolic proton. All the complexes show extensive H-bonded network in the crystals including narrow (7.8 x 5.2 angstrom) water filled one dimensional channel in 2. (C) 2010 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
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