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Balasubramanian Chidambaranathan1, Settu Sivaraj1, Pandy Vijayamathubalan1
1PG and Research Department of Physics, Government Arts College for Men, (Autonomous), Chennai 600 035, Tamil Nadu, India.
Abstract:
The title coordination compound, [Ni(C6H14N2O)2(H2O)2]Cl2, was synthesized by mixing 4-(2-amino-eth-yl)morpholine and nickel chloride in double-distilled water. The asymmetric unit comprises one half of an NiII cation (located on an inversion centre), one 4-(2-amino-eth-yl)morpholine ligand, one coordinated water mol-ecule and one chloride ion outside the metal coordination sphere. The nickel ion is in a octa-hedral environment of the N4O2 type, coordinating four N atoms from two 4-(2-amino-eth-yl)morpholine ligands and two trans-located O atoms from two water mol-ecules. The morpholine ligand was found disordered over two positions with a site occupancy ratio of 0.708 (8):0.292 (8). The crystal structure is consolidated by N-H⋯Cl, N-H⋯O, C-H⋯Cl and C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds. Hirshfeld surface analysis confirms that van der Waals inter-actions are prevalent in the crystal packing of the synthesized complex.
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