Homochiral and pseudoracemic 3,3- and 1,2-dimethyldiaziridine–silver nitrate complexes

Abstract

Diaziridine molecules in the title complexes 1 and 2, respectively, are bidentate ligands and form coordination polymers in which silver ions are coordinated to the trans-oriented nitrogen lone pairs of the ligands; complex 1 is homochiral (space group P2₁2₁2₁), whereas 2 is a pseudoracemate (space group Pbca) in which the alternation of ligands with opposite configurations is statistically disordered.