Complexes of Trivalent Metal Ions with Potentially Heptadentate N4O3 Schiff Base and Amine Phenol Ligands of Varying Rigidity

Abstract

The synthesis and characterization of several potentially heptadentate N{sub 4}O{sub 3} Schiff bases and amine phenols, as well as a series of their mononuclear and dinuclear complexes with indium and the lanthanides are reported. Schiff bases containing imidazolidine rings were the products of the known condensation reaction of triethylenetetramine with 3 equiv of 5-substituted salicylaldehydes to form H{sub 3}api (5-H-substituent), H{sub 3}Clapi (5-Cl-substituent), or H{sub 3}Brapi (5-Br-substituent); KBH{sub 4} reduction of these Schiff bases gave the appropriate isomeric N{sub 4}O{sub 3} amine phenols H{sub 3}(1,2,4-btt) and H{sub 3}(1,1,4-btt), as well as an acetone adduct, H{sub 3}(1,2,4-ahi). The Schiff bases reacted with 1 equiv of a lanthanide (Ln{sup 3+}) nitrate to produce mononuclear nine-coordinated [Ln(H{sub 3}Xapi)-(NO{sub 3}){sub 3}] complex wherein the ligand adopts a tridentate capping coordination mode, whereas the amine phenols formed mononuclear seven-coordinate complexes with the lanthanides and indium; homodinuclear complexes [LnL]{sub 2} were also obtained with the Schiff bases. The X-ray structures of the Schiff bases H{sub 3}api and H{sub 3}Clapi, the mononuclear amine phenol complexes Yb(1,2,4-btt){center_dot}0.5CH{sub 3}OH and In(1,1,4-btt), and the homodinuclear Schiff base complex [La(Brapi)]{sub 2}{center_dot}2CHCl{sub 3} have been determined.