Rationalizing the effects of amino acid side chain, pyridine, and imidazole on the assembly and reversible disassembly of a octanuclear Cu(III) complex

Alam, Akhtarul Md and Koner, RikRani and Das, Amrita and Nethaji, Munirathinum and Ray, Manabendra (2007) Rationalizing the effects of amino acid side chain, pyridine, and imidazole on the assembly and reversible disassembly of a octanuclear Cu(III) complex. In: Crystal Growth & Design, 7 (9). pp. 1818-1824.

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Abstract

This paper reports the observation of a reversible disassembly process for a previously reported octanuclear Cu(II) complex with imidazole. To identify the factors responsible for the process, five Cu(II) complexes of different nuclearity with different amino acid-derived tetradentate ligands were structurally characterized. The results show that the coordination geometry preference of Cu(II), the tendency of imidazole to act as in-plane ligand, and H-bonding played important role in the formation and disassembly of the octanuclear complex. A general scheme describing the effect of different amino acid side arms, solvents, and exogenous ligands on the nuclearity of the Cu(II) complexes has been presented. The crystals of the complexes also showed formation of multifaceted networks in the resulting complexes.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Crystal Growth & Design
Publisher:	American Chemical Society
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to American Chemical Society.
Department/Centre:	Division of Chemical Sciences > Inorganic & Physical Chemistry
Date Deposited:	11 Jun 2010 06:18
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 05:59
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/26912

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