Abstract
The products of the reactions of 1,2-dimethylimidazole and N-methylimidazole with tetrakis(ferrocenecarboxylato)dicopper(II) have been isolated and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. They are the monomeric species cis-bis(1,2-dimethylimidazole)bis(ferrocenecarboxylato)copper(II)1 and trans-bis(ferrocenecarboxylato)bis(N-methylimidazole)copper(II)2, respectively. In each complex the copper ion is in a square-planar environment consisting of two imidazole nitrogen atoms and a carboxylate oxygen atom from each ferrocenecarboxylate ligand. The second oxygen atoms of the carboxylate functionalities are involved in weak interactions with the copper ions. The η5-C5H4 and η5-C5H5 rings of the ferrocenyl moieties are nearly eclipsed with deviations from the eclipsed conformation of 9.7 and 5.5° for 1 and 4.4° for 2.
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