Original scientific paper

Nonstoichiometric Bromo-chloro-pyridine-MoIII Complexes

Nives Kitanovski
Ljubo Golič
Anton Meden
Boris Čeh

Abstract

By a selective exchange of ligand Br by Cl, a series of nonstoichiometric bromo-chloro-pyridine- molybdenum(III) octahedral compounds of the type (cat)[MoBraCl(4-a)py2] (cat = pyH, a = 3–1 (1, 4, 7)); cat = [(C2H5)3NH], a = 2.744 (2); cat = Rb, a = 2.278 (5); cat =[(C6H5)4)As], a = 1.258 (8) and [MoBraCl(3–a)py3] (a = 2–1 (3, 6)) have been prepared and characterized. Owing to great similarity of the powder diffraction patterns and IR spectra of compounds mer- [MoBraCl(3-a)py3] (a = 3–0) with the known monoclinic modification in the space group P21/c and compounds [MoBraCl(3-a)py3] (a = 2-1 (3, 6)), the same type of crystal lattice was confirmed. Isostructurality was observed also for the orthorhombic trans-(pyH)[MoBr4py2]](Pnma) and compounds 1 and 4, while compound 7 is isostructural to trans-(pyH)[MoCl4py2]. X-ray crystallographic analyses of 2, 5 and 8, obtained by recrystallization of (pyH)[MoBraCl(4-a)py2] (a = 3–1) with different cations, were performed. In these compounds, MoIII is octahedrally coordinated with four halogenido ions at distances 2.4953(6)–2.5920(10) Å and two pyridine molecules at distances 2.195(4)-2.220(4) Å. Trans oriented pyridine rings in compounds 5 and 8 are co-planar, while deviation from co-planarity was noticed for compound 2 (8.9(3)°). The stoichiometry of four coordinated Br and Cl atoms in these compounds is not ideal, since the structure analysis results for 2, 5 and 8 show a mixed occupancy of crystallographic sites; thus, refined population parameters for both atoms (Br and Cl) were calculated.

Keywords

molybdenum(III) complexes; bromo, chloro, pyridine ligands; X-ray analysis

Hrčak ID:

2799

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/2799

Publication date:

24.3.2005.

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