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Construction and Systematical Symmetric Studies of a Series of Supramolecular Clusters with Binary or Ternary Ammonium Triphenylacetates
Published on: February 15, 2016
[rac-1,8-Bis(2-carbamoyleth-yl)-5,5,7,12,12,14-hexa-methyl-1,4,8,11-tetra-aza-cyclo-tetra-deca-ne]copper(II)
Sabina Yasmin1, Saswata Rabi2, Avijit Chakraborty1
1Department of Chemistry, University of Chittagong, Faculty of Science, Chattogarm-4331, Bangladesh.
Abstract:
The title CuII macrocyclic complex salt tetra-hydrate, [Cu(C22H46N6O2)](C2H3O2)2·4H2O, sees the metal atom located on a centre of inversion and coordinated within a 4 + 2 (N4O2) tetra-gonally distorted coordination geometry; the N atoms are derived from the macrocycle and the O atoms from weakly associated [3.2048 (15) Å] acetate anions. Further stability to the three-ion aggregate is provided by intra-molecular amine-N-H⋯O(carboxyl-ate) hydrogen bonds. Hydrogen bonding is also prominent in the mol-ecular packing with amide-N-H⋯O(amide) inter-actions, leading to eight-membered {⋯HNCO}2 synthons, amide-N-H⋯O(water), water-O-H⋯O(carboxyl-ate) and water-O-H⋯O(water) hydrogen bonds featuring within the three-dimensional architecture. The calculated Hirshfeld surfaces for the individual components of the asymmetric unit differentiate the water mol-ecules owing to their distinctive supra-molecular association. For each of the anion and cation, H⋯H contacts predominate (50.7 and 65.2%, respectively) followed by H⋯O/O⋯H contacts (44.5 and 29.9%, respectively).
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