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Sulekh Chandra1, Rajiv Kumar, Rajeev Singh
1Department of Chemistry, Zakir Husain College (University of Delhi), Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg, New Delhi 110002, India.
Abstract:
A comparative investigation of the interaction of two pyrrole-substituted, mixed oxygen and nitrogen donor, macrocycles ligands have been designed and their coordination interaction with cobalt(II) is studied. Cobalt(II) salts combine with a tetradentate and hexadentate macrocyclic nitrogen/oxygen donor ligands and formed novel cobalt(II) complexes which are characterized by elemental analysis, molar conductance, magnetic moments, mass, (1)H NMR, IR, electronic and EPR spectral studies. At the room temperature magnetic moment for cobalt(II) complexes lie in the range 4.70-5.01BM, which is higher than the spin-only value. All the complexes are high-spin type and have three unpaired electrons. Therefore, the electronic confutation and the splitting of the orbital will be t(2g)(5)eg(2). The electrochemical behaviour of the cobalt(II) complexes, the Co(III)/Co(II) couple are observed. Their positive potential indicates that metal in lower oxidation state is strongly bound to these ligands. The difference between the potential of the anodic peak and cathodic peak remains constant in all complexes. Also, the ratio between the cathodic peak current and square root of the scan rate is practically constant for the studied complexes.
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