Four and six-coordinated cobalt complexes based on thiosemicarbazone. Formation, experimental and theoretical characterization

Abstract

The template reaction was performed between benzoylacetone-S-propylthiosemicarbazone and salicylaldehyde in the presence of Co(ClO4)2 and a square planar cobalt(II) complex, [Co(L)] (Co1) where L is a dibasic thiosemicarbazidato ligand was isolated. It was aimed to synthesize the octahedral cobalt complexes by using the co-ligands, pyridine and 2-amino pyridine. An octahedral cobalt(III) complex, [Co(L)(py)2]ClO4 (Co2), with two axial-pyridine ligands was obtained. Reaction with 2-amino pyridine gave an unexpected cobalt(III) centered structure, [Co(L1)]·H2O (Co3), where L1 is a new sixdentate (N4O2) ligand that yielded by the addition of the amino group of pyridine to the L ligand. L1 has tribasic thiosemicarbazidato structure that altered by the participation of an oxygen atom in addition to the amines. Experimental characterizations of three complexes have been completed using IR, NMR, UV–Vis, ESI-MS techniques and X-ray data. In order to better understand the intermolecular interactions of the structures, the Nonlinear Optical (NLO) properties and frontier orbitals (FMO) of the complexes were obtained using the Gaussian 09 program, DFT/B3LYP with 6–31 G (d, p) bas set for the C, N, O, H atoms and with LanL2DZ basic set for Co metal atom.