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Thanjavur R Sarangarajan1, Belli S Krishnamoorthy, Krishnaswamy Panchanatheswaran
1School of Chemical and Biotechnology, Shanmuga Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy (SASTRA), Tirumalaisamudram, Thanjavur 623 106, India.
Abstract:
Compounds trans-tetraaquadichloridocobalt(II)-piperazine-2,5-dione (1/1), [CoCl(2)(H(2)O)(4)].C(4)H(6)N(2)O(2), (I), and trans-tetraaquadichloridonickel(II)-piperazine-2,5-dione (1/1), [NiCl(2)(H(2)O)(4)].C(4)H(6)N(2)O(2), (II), are isomorphous. In each structure, the metal complex and the piperazinedione unit both lie across centres of inversion in the space group P2(1)/n. The [MCl(2)(H(2)O)(4)] units (M = Co or Ni) are linked by O-H...Cl hydrogen bonds into sheets of R(2)(2)(8) and R(4)(2)(12) rings, and these sheets are linked by the piperazinedione components via a combination of O-H...O and N-H...Cl hydrogen bonds into a three-dimensional framework. In catena-poly[[[trans-diaquacopper(II)]-di-mu-chlorido] piperazine-2,5-dione solvate], {[CuCl(2)(H(2)O)(2)].C(4)H(6)N(2)O(2)}(n), (III), the metal ion and the piperazine unit both lie across centres of inversion in the space group I2/a. The coordination polymer forms chains of centrosymmetric [CuCl(2)(H(2)O)(2)] units running parallel to [010] and these are linked by the piperazinedione units into a three-dimensional framework structure. In poly[mu(3)-nitrato-mu(2)-piperazine-2,5-dione-silver(I)], [Ag(NO(3))(C(4)H(6)N(2)O(2))](n), (IV), the silver and nitrate ions lie on mirror planes in the space group Pnma, while the piperazinedione unit lies across a centre of inversion. The compound is a coordination polymer containing five-coordinate approximately square-pyramidal Ag, in which the ligating O atoms are derived from three different nitrate ligands and two different piperazinedione ligands. The ionic components form sheets in which each anion is coordinated to three different cations, and these sheets are linked into a three-dimensional framework by the organic ligands, each of which coordinates to two different Ag centres. The significance of this study lies in its demonstration of a wide variety of framework types built from a common and very simple organic component with simple metal salts.
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