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Ghodrat Mahmoudi

Ghodrat Mahmoudi

Academic rank: Associate Professor
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Research

Title
Solvent dependent nuclearity of manganese complexes with a polydentate hydrazone-based ligand and thiocyanate anions
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
Manganese Complex nuclearity Crystal engineering Self-assembly Solvent effect
Year
2017
Journal INORGANICA CHIMICA ACTA
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Researchers Ghodrat Mahmoudi ، Ennio Zangrando, ، Werner Kaminsky ، Piotr Garczarek ، Antonio Frontera

Abstract

The reaction of Mn(II) chloride with the 2-benzoylpyridyl-(2-picolyl)-hydrazone ligand (HL) and thio- cyanate anions in different solvent systems affords mono- [Mn(HL)2(SCN)2](1), di- [Mn2(HL)2(SCN)4] (2) and a tetra-nuclear complex [Mn4(L)4(SCN)4]2(CH3CN) (3) with concomitant different coordination modes of the ligands. Remarkably, the nuclearity of the complexes only depends on the solvent used, ethanol for 1, n-propanol for 2 and acetonitrile for 3. The complexes have been characterized by elemen- tal analysis, IR spectroscopy technique and the molecular structures determined by single crystal X-ray analysis. In 1 and 2 the ligands are present in its neutral form, while they are deprotonated in 3, but more significantly in all structures a different denticity of ligands was detected: in complex 1 one molecule is tridentate coordinated though the N,N,O donor set, the other bidentate through N,O; in 2 the ligands are N,N,O-tridentate; finally in 3 each ligand, acting as N,N,O,N-tetradentate species, bridges two metals to form a tetranuclear assembly. The crystal structures have been described using the Hirshfeld surface analysis. Finally, we have studied the ability of the thiocyanato ligand to participate in H-bonding and CAH/p interactions by means of DFT calculations (B3LYP/6-31+G⁄⁄).