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Aqua-(pyridine-3-carb-oxy-lic acid-κN)(pyridine-2,6-dicarboxyl-ato-κO,N,O)copper(II) monohydrate
Ting Ting Chen1, Yan Fang Shang, Xia Xi
1School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nantong University, Nantong 226019, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
In the title Cu(II) complex, [Cu(C(7)H(3)NO(4))(C(6)H(5)NO(2))(H(2)O)]·H(2)O, the environment of the Cu(2+) ion is a distorted square pyramid with the axial site occupied by the O atom from the coordinated water mol-ecule and the square base formed by two O and two N atoms from the tridentate anion and the neutral monodentate pyridine-3-carboxylic acid ligand. O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, as well as π-π inter-actions [centroid-centroid distance = 3.945 (3) Å] contribute to the stabilization of this structure.
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