Issue 2, 2018

Heteronuclear cobalt(iii)/sodium complexes with salen type compartmental Schiff base ligands: methylene spacer regulated variation in nuclearity

Abstract

Three heteronuclear cobalt(III)/sodium Schiff base complexes have been synthesized and characterized by elemental and spectral analysis. The structures of all three complexes have been confirmed by single crystal X-ray analyses. Each of these three complexes crystallizes in monoclinic space group P21/c. In each complex, cobalt(III) is placed in the inner N2O2 compartment and sodium is placed in the outer O2O′2 compartment (O and O′ denote the phenolic and ethoxy/methoxy oxygen atoms, respectively) of the Schiff bases. With decrease in steric hindrance around the O2O′2 compartment by the replacement of ethyl groups with methyl groups, tetranuclear complexes resulted instead of dinuclear ones. Interesting carbon bonding interactions in the solid state of the complexes have been studied by means of DFT calculations using several computational tools such as “atoms-in-molecules” (AIM) and natural bond orbital (NBO) analyses.

Graphical abstract: Heteronuclear cobalt(iii)/sodium complexes with salen type compartmental Schiff base ligands: methylene spacer regulated variation in nuclearity

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
18 Oct 2017
Accepted
24 Nov 2017
First published
27 Nov 2017

Dalton Trans., 2018,47, 331-347

Heteronuclear cobalt(III)/sodium complexes with salen type compartmental Schiff base ligands: methylene spacer regulated variation in nuclearity

K. Ghosh, K. Harms, A. Bauzá, A. Frontera and S. Chattopadhyay, Dalton Trans., 2018, 47, 331 DOI: 10.1039/C7DT03929H

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