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Thermochemical Studies of Ni(II) and Zn(II) Ternary Complexes Using Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry
Published on: June 8, 2022
Bis(3-hydroxy-phenyl-acetato-κO,O')bis-(1H-imidazole-κN)nickel(II)
1Department of Chemistry, Bijie University, Bijie 551700, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
In the title mononuclear complex, [Ni(C(8)H(7)O(3))(2)(C(3)H(4)N(2))(2)], the Ni(II) atom, lying on a twofold rotation axis, is coordinated by four carboxyl-ate O atoms from two bidentate 3-hydroxy-phenylacetato ligands and two N atoms from two imidazole mol-ecules in a distorted octa-hedral geometry. A three-dimensional network is formed via inter-molecular O-H⋯O and N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds and π-π stacking inter-actions between the imidazole and benzene rings of neighboring mol-ecules [centroid-centroid distance = 3.856 (2) Å].
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