AN ALKOXO-BRIDGED BINUCLEAR MANGANESE COMPLEX BIS(μ-PROPIONATO-O: O′)-BIS(μ-3-SALICYLIDENE-AMINO-PROPANOLATO-O″,O‴,N:O″) BISMANGANESE(III)

Abstract

The alkoxo-bridged binuclear complex of MnIII, [Mn2(salpa)2(C2H5—COO)2] (H2salpa = 3-salicylidene-amino-1-propanol), has been prepared and its crystal structure has been determined by X-ray diffraction. The structure of the title complex consists of discrete binuclear manganese units in which the MnIII atoms are bridged by two alkoxo ligands via oxygen atoms and supported by two carboxylato bridging ligands in the syn - syn fashion. The complex lies about a crystallographic inversion center. Each MnIII atom is located in an elongated octahedral environment with one imino N, one phenolic O and two alkoxo O atoms coordinated in the equatorial plane and two O atoms from carboxylato groups at the apical positions. The remarkably longer coordination bond distances in the axial direction are attributed to Jahn-Teller distortion at the d 4 manganese center. The distance between the manganese atoms is 2.8662(9) Å. The asymmetrical and symmetric stretching vibrations for carboxylato groups found at 1550 and 1440 cm−1, respectively, with a separation of less than 200 cm−1 confirmed the bidentate mode of the carboxylato groups.