Croatica Chemica Acta, Vol. 68 No. 4, 1995.
Original scientific paper
Self Assembly of Copper(I) and Silver(I) Butterfly Clusters with 2-Mercaptothiazoline
César A. López
; Department of Chemistry and Laboratory for Molecular Structure and Bonding, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3255, USA
John P., Jr. Fackler
; Department of Chemistry and Laboratory for Molecular Structure and Bonding, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3255, USA
Richard J. Staples
; Department of Chemistry and Laboratory for Molecular Structure and Bonding, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3255, USA
Suning Wang
; Department of Chemistry and Laboratory for Molecular Structure and Bonding, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3255, USA
Richard E. P. Winpenny
; Department of Chemistry and Laboratory for Molecular Structure and Bonding, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3255, USA
Abstract
X-ray data obtained from poor crystals which formed from the reaction of copper(II) acetate with 2-mercaptothiazoline reveal the formation of a product that is a polymer formed of tetranuclear, butterfly shaped Cu4(MT)4, 1, clusters. Preparation, isolation and structural characterization of a series of isostructural butterfly complexes was accomplished by addition of a Lewis base (pyridine,
PPh3, or ASPI13) to the precipitate obtained from the reaction of copper(II) and/or silver(I) acetate with the appropriate stoichiometric amount of 2-mercaptothiazoline. The general formula of these clusters is L2M4(MT)4; 2, L = PPI13 and M = Cu; 3, L = AsPh3 and M = Cu; 6, L = PPI13 and M = Ag; MT = C3H4NS2_, known as 2-mer- captothiazolinate. The polymer [pyCu4(MT)4]„, 4, formed by the addition of pyridine to 1, was also characterized crystallographically.
A mixed metal butterfly complex, (PPh3)2Ag2Cu2(MT)4, 8, is formed by addition of PPI13 to a suspension of the precipitate formed upon reaction of the free HMT ligand with a 1:1 mixture of copper(II) and silver(I) acetates in CH2CI2. FD-MS results of each of the precipitates obtained from the metal acetates and the free ligand indicate that the monomeric unit is M4(MT)4. 1H-NMR and 31P{1H}-NMR, both in solution and in the solid state are presented and interpreted.
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136694
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Publication date:
1.11.1995.
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