Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun. 1999, 64, 600-612
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19990600

Complexes with New Chelate Anionic Ligands Formed by Nucleophilic Addition in Copper(II) Coordination Sphere. III. The Crystal Structures of (2,2'-Bipyridine-N,N')(cyanato-N)[methyl(2-cyano-2-imidoxy Ethaneimidate-N,N')]copper(II) and (2,2'-Bipyridine-N,N')(2-cyano-2-imidoxy Ethaneimidate-N,N')copper(II)

Michal Dunaj-Jurčoa,*, Ivan Potočňáka, Dušan Mikloša and Robert Klementb

a Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Slovak Technical University, 812 37 Bratislava, Slovakia
b Department of Physical Chemistry, Slovak Technical University, 812 37 Bratislava, Slovakia

This article is part of serial Complexes with New Chelate Anionic Ligands Formed by Nucleophilic Addition in Copper(II) Coordination Sphere.

Abstract

Crystal structures of Cu(II) compounds with new chelate anionic ligands are presented. The formulae of these compounds are [Cu(bipy)(mcoe)(NCO)] (1) and [Cu(bipy)(coe)] (2), where bipy is 2,2'-bipyridine, mcoe and coe are the anionic chelate ligands methyl(2-cyano-2-imidoxy ethaneimidate), [(ON)(NC)C-C(NH)(OCH3)]1- (3), and 2-cyano-2-imidoxy ethaneimidate, [(ON)(NC)C-C(NH)(O)]2- (4), respectively, formed by nucleophilic addition of methanol and hydroxide ion to the coordinatively activated β-carbon of the nitroso-dicyanomethanide. Formation of the hydroxide ion from water in the reaction mixture can be explained by protonation of the C(CN)3- anion. The coordination polyhedra in 1 and 2 are quite different. The coordination polyhedron around the Cu(II) ion in 1 is a distorted trigonal bipyramid and in 2 a distorted square. The Cu(II) ion in 1 is coordinated by four N atoms from two bidentate ligands and one N atom from the NCO- group. The crystal structure consists of discrete molecules with {CuN5} chromophore. On the other hand, the Cu(II) ion in 2 is coordinated by four N atoms from two bidentate ligands in square coordination and the molecules are linked by weaker contacts between copper and oxygen atoms (Cu-O1i = 2.503(3), Cu-O2ii = 2.801(3) Å; i = -x, -y, -z + 1; ii = -x + 1, -y, -z + 1) to infinite chains parallel with c. Thus the coordination polyhedron is completed to an elongated tetragonal bipyramid with the {CuN4O*O*} chromophore. The angle O1i-Cu-O2ii is 167.9(1)° and the crystal structure cannot be considered as molecular but consisting of chains running in one direction. Inspection of the bond distances in mcoe and coe indicates strongly delocalized π-bonding systems. This is also supported by the fact that the anions are almost planar with bond angles close to 120°. The calculated Wiberg (bond-order) indices show that due to conjugation, the bonds within the metallocycle in mcoe and coe exhibit partially multiple character.

Keywords: Crystal structure determination; Nucleophilic addition; Coordinative activation; Pseudohalogenides; ESR spectroscopy; Copper; Bipyridine complexes; Chelates.