Calculation of geometric parameters and energies of macrocyclic metal chelates in the ternary M(II) ion-thiocarbamoylmethanamide-formaldehyde systems

Abstract

The thermodynamic and geometric parameters of isomeric macrotricyclic Mn(II), Fe(II), Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II), and Zn(II) complexes that can, in principle, be the products of the reaction of corresponding hexacyanoferrates(II) with thiocarbamoylmethanamide H2N-C(=S)-C(=O)-NH2 and formaldehyde in gelatin-immobilized matrix implants have been calculated by the hybrid B3LYP density functional theory method with the use of the 6–31G(d) basis set and the Gaussian 98 program package. For any of the M(II) ions under consideration, the most stable complexes have the MN4 metal chelate cores. The bond lengths and bond angles in these complexes have been reported, and it has been stated that the five-membered chelate rings in the complexes are not strictly planar. The additional six-membered chelate ring resulting from template cross-linking is also nonplanar and, in some cases, is turned at a rather large angle to the five-membered rings.