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Chemical Precipitation Method for the Synthesis of Nb2O5 Modified Bulk Nickel Catalysts with High Specific Surface Area
Published on: February 19, 2018
A tetra-nuclear nickel(II) complex, [Ni4(L)4](ClO4)4·C2H3N·2H2O, with an asymmetric Ni4O4 open-cubane-like core
Abstract:
A tetra-nuclear complex with an open-cubane-like core structure was synthesized from 2-meth-oxy-6-(pyridin-2-yl-hydrazonometh-yl)phenol (HL), namely, cyclo-tetra-kis-(μ-2-meth-oxy-6-{[2-(pyridin-2-yl)hydrazin-1-yl-idene]meth-yl}pheno-lato)tetra-nickel(II) tetra-kis-(perchlorate) aceto-nitrile monosolvate dihydrate, [Ni4(C13H12N3O2)4](ClO4)4·C2H3N·2H2O, and characterized using micro-analytical and spectroscopic techniques. The crystal-structure determination reveals the formation of a distorted Ni4O4 cubane-like core architecture encapsulated by four hydrazone Schiff base (HL) mol-ecules. A open-cube tetra-nuclear architecture is created in which nickel(II) ions of the NiN2O3 unit are connected by μ2-O anions of the phenolate moiety of HL. In this complex, each Ni centre has a slightly distorted square-pyramidal coordination environment. The supra-molecular architectures are stabilized via the presence of various inter-molecular hydrogen bonds and (ar-yl-aryl, ar-yl-chelate and chelate-chelate) stacking inter-actions.
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