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Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles Supported on Carbon Nanotube with Doped Co and N Atoms and its Catalytic Applications in Hydrogen Production
Published on: December 6, 2021
Synthesis, crystal structure and Hirshfeld surface analysis of
Asma Lehleh1, Mehdi Boutebdja1,2, Chahrazed Beghidja1
1Unité de Recherche de Chimie de l'Environnement et Moléculaire Structurale (CHEMS), Université Frères Mentouri Constantine 1, 25017, Constantine, Algeria.
Abstract:
The title compound, [Co(C10H9O3)(C12H8N2)2(H2O)]NO3 (I), crystallizes in the triclinic space group P with a monomeric [Co(3-meo-cin)(phen)2(H2O)]+ cation and a nitrate anion (3-meo-cin = 3-meth-oxy cinnamic acid) in the asymmetric unit. The CoII ion is coordinated by four N atoms from two 1,10-phenanthroline ligands and two O atoms, the first from a meth-oxy cinnamate ligand and the second from a coordinated water mol-ecule, forming a distorted octa-hedral geometry. Discrete entities of the cation and nitrate anion are formed by water-nitrate O-H⋯O and phen-nitrate C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds. The components are further assembled into chains along the c-axis direction. Layers are than formed by slipped π-π stacking inter-actions parallel to the bc plane. The inter-molecular inter-actions in the crystal structure were qu-anti-fied and analysed using Hirshfeld surface analysis.
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