Nature of Hydration Water in (±)-Tris(ethylenediamine)cobalt(III) Chloride Hydrate, (±)-[Co(en)3]Cl3 · nH2O, as Studied by 1H, 2H, and 17O Solid State NMR

Abstract

The static and dynamics properties of hydration water molecules in (±)-[Co(en)3]Cl3 were studied by means of 1H, 2H, and , 17O solid state NMR. By 'H pulsed field gradient (PFG) NMR the apparent diffusion coefficient of mobile water through a micropore along the crystalline unique c-axis was found to be 1.0 x 10-9 m2 s-1 . The 2H NMR spectrum at 141 K consists of two components, one being a Pake doublet corresponding to a quadrupole coupling constant (QCC) of (226 ± 2) kHz and an asymmetry parameter of the electric field gradient η of 0.08 ± 0.01, and another being a Gaussian line with a linewidth of 3.5 kHz. The 17O NMR spectrum at 300 K also consists of a narrow Gaussian peak and a broad powder pattern with a second order quadrupole effect corresponding to QCC = (6.3 ± 0.5) MHz and η = 0.55±0.02. The broad and narrow components are assigned to water molecules accommodated at general 12g positions and special 2a and 2b positions in the trigonal lattice with space group P1c1. From the ratio of the populations at these positions their potential energy difference was estimated to be between (2.7 ±0.1) and (3.5 ± 0.1) kJmol-1 . The 2H NMR spectrum at room temperature indicates a finite quadrupole interaction which is attributable to the rapid rotation of water molecule about the molecular C2-axis. When the water content exceeds 2.7, the QCC is reduced sharply to (5.0 ±0.1) kHz at 285 K, suggesting that there occurs rapid rotation of water and rapid exchange of 2H between nonequivalent positions.