RESEARCH ARTICLE
Crystal Structure of the Monoprotonated Tripodal Ligand Tris(2,2’- bipyrid-6-yl) Methanol
Cuhananthan W. Sathiyajith*, James C. Knight, Benson M. Kariuki, Peter G. Edwards, Angelo J. Amoroso*
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2014Volume: 1
First Page: 15
Last Page: 20
Publisher Id: CHEM-1-15
DOI: 10.2174/1874842201401010015
Article History:
Received Date: 24/07/2014Revision Received Date: 05/09/2014
Acceptance Date: 15/09/2014
Electronic publication date: 27/11/2014
Collection year: 2014
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Abstract
The tripodal bipyridine-based ligand tris(2,2’-bipyrid-6-yl) methanol (L 1 ) was shown in our previous work to have a strong steric preference for trigonal prismatic co - ordination environments with a series of transition metals. We now report the crystal structure of the ligand framework, isolated in its monoprotonated form with a perchlorate counterion. The structure was solved in a monoclinic space group C2/c with cell parameters, a = 21.5885(3), b = 11.7485(3), c = 24.6939(6) Å, α = 90°, β = 110.790(1) °, γ = 90°, volume = 5855.4(2) Å3 , Z = 8. The 1H NMR of the protonated ligand is similar to the parent ligand and showed the compound retained its 3-fold symmetry and all bipyridine groups were equivalent.
We report the crystal structure of the protonated form a tripodal bipyridine-based ligand framework with a strong steric preference for trigonal prismatic co-ordination environments.
