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Syntheses, Crystallization, and Spectroscopic Characterization of 3,5-Lutidine N-Oxide Dehydrate
Published on: April 24, 2018
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Kateryna Znovjyak1, Sergiu Shova2, Vazghen Nikolian3
1Department of Chemistry, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Volodymyrska Street 64, Kyiv, 01601, Ukraine.
Abstract:
The unit cell of the title compound, [Ni(C17H11N6O2)2]·2CH3OH, consists of a neutral complex and two methanol mol-ecules. In the complex, the two tridentate 2-[3-(benzo[d][1,3]dioxol-5-yl)-1H-1,2,4-triazol-5-yl]-6-(1H-pyrazol-1-yl)pyridine ligands coordinate to the central NiII ion through nitro-gen atoms of the pyrazole, pyridine and triazole groups, forming a pseudo-octa-hedral coordination sphere. Neighbouring mol-ecules are linked through weak C-H(pz)⋯π(ph) inter-actions into monoperiodic chains, which are further linked through weak C-H⋯H/N/C inter-actions into diperiodic layers. The inter-molecular contacts were qu-anti-fied using Hirshfeld surface analysis and two-dimensional fingerprint plots, revealing the relative contributions of the contacts to the crystal packing to be H⋯H 38.4%, C⋯H/H⋯C 25.3%, N⋯H/H⋯N 14.1%, and O⋯H/H⋯O 11.8%. The average Ni-N bond distance is 2.085 Å. Energy framework analysis at the HF/3-21 G theory level was performed to qu-antify the inter-action energies in the crystal structure.
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