Palladium, cadmium and mercury complexes of 2-((2-((2-hydroxyethyl)amino)ethyl)amino)cyclohexanol: Synthesis, structural, spectral and solution studies

Abstract

In this work, 2-((2-((2-hydroxyethyl)amino)ethyl)amino)cyclohexanol, HEAC, was prepared in solvent by the ring opening of cyclohexene oxide with 2-(2-amino-ethylamino)ethanol. Four complexes of HEAC, including [Pd(HEAC)Cl2] (1), [Cd2(HEAC)2(μ-Br)2Br2] (2), [Cd(HEAC)(OAc)2] (3) and [Hg(HEAC)Cl2] (4), were prepared and identified by elemental analysis, FT-IR, Raman, 1H NMR spectroscopy and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Redox properties of HEAC before and after complexation were investigated in DMSO. In the crystal structure of HEAC, the two hydroxyl arms are trans to each other and the cyclohexane ring has a chair conformation with two C-chiral centers. Two new N-chiral centers are produced during the complexation process. In the crystal structure of 1, the palladium atom has a distorted square planar PdN2Cl2 environment. X-ray analysis of 2 reveals a dimer structure containing two bromide bridges. Each cadmium atom in 2 is found to be in a CdN2OBr3 distorted octahedral environment. The Cd2(μ-Br)2 moiety is placed on a plane and forms a parallelogram. The complex has a center of inversion at the center of the parallelogram and Ci symmetry. In the crystal structure of 3, the cadmium atom with a CdN2O5 environment has a distorted capped trigonal prismatic geometry. Complex 4 also has a distorted square-pyramidal geometry (HgN2OCl2). In the networks of HEAC and the complexes 1–4, intermolecular hydrogen bonds form different types of hydrogen bond motifs between adjacent molecules.