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Mireille Perec1, Ricardo Baggio
1INQUIMAE, Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Analítica y Química Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Abstract:
In the monomeric title compound, [Cu(C(4)H(4)O(5))(C(6)H(6)N(2)O)(H(2)O)]·1.5H(2)O, the Cu(II) cation is bound in a square-pyramidal coordination to a tridentate oxydiacetate (ODA) ligand, a monodentate pyridine-3-carboxamide (p3ca) ligand and one aqua ligand, where the two organic ligands form the basal plane and the water O atom occupies the unique apical site. The ODA ligand presents a slight out-of-plane puckering in its central ether O atom, while the p3ca ligand is essentially planar. The availability of efficient donors and acceptors for hydrogen bonding results in the formation of strongly linked hydrogen-bonded bilayers parallel to (101), with an interplanar distance of 3.18 (1) Å and a stacking separation between the bilayers of 3.10 (1) Å, both of them governed by extended π-π interactions. The disordered nature of the solvent water molecules around inversion centres is discussed. The monoaqua compound is compared with the octahedral diaqua analogue, [Cu(C(4)H(4)O(5))(C(6)H(6)N(2)O)(H(2)O)(2)], reported recently [Perec & Baggio (2009). Acta Cryst. C65, m296-m298].
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