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Thermochemical Studies of Ni(II) and Zn(II) Ternary Complexes Using Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry
Published on: June 8, 2022
trans-Tetra-aqua-bis-[2-(4-chloro-phen-oxy)acetato-κO (1)]nickel(II)
Jamshid Ashurov1, Mavlonbek Ziyaev, Bakhtiyar Ibragimov
1Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, M. Ulugbek Str. 83, Tashkent, 700125 Uzbekistan.
Abstract:
In the title compound, [Ni(C8H6ClO3)2(H2O)4], the Ni(II) ion is located on a crystallographic inversion centre and is octa-hedrally coordinated by two 2-(4-chloro-phen-oxy)acetate ligands in axial positions and by four water mol-ecules in the equatorial plane. The acetate ligands are bound to the Ni(II) ion in a monodentate manner through a carboxyl-ate O atom. In the crystal, O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the mol-ecules, forming a two-dimensional supra-molecular network lying parallel to the ab plane.
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