Synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of dicyanamido–Cu(II) complexes. Part 2 : Crystal structure of the complexes of tris[2-(2-pyridylethyl)]amine, tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine and 1,4-bis[2-(2-pyridylethyl)]piperazine

Abstract

Two classes of novel dicyanamido (dca)–Cu(II) complexes were synthesized with a variety of tetradentate tripod amines, tridentate amines and diazacycloalkanes with pyridyl arms of different alkyl lengths and with tetra-aza macrocycles with different cavity sizes; the mononuclear, Cu(L)(dca)]ClO 4 (L = tepa ( 1), TPA ( 2), pzdepy ( 4), hpzpy 2 ( 5), cyclen ( 7), cyclam ( 8), tacp ( 9)) or Cu(L)(dca)ClO 4 (L = MeDPA ( 10), Mepea ( 11)) and the dinuclear, [Cu 2(L′) 2(dca)](ClO 4) 3 (L′ = pmap ( 3), pzpy 2 ( 6)). The isolated complexes were structurally characterized by electronic and IR spectroscopy as well as by X-ray. Single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis of the complexes [Cu(tepa)(dca)]ClO 4 ( 1), [Cu(TPA)(dca)]ClO 4 ( 2) and [Cu(pzdepy)(dca)]ClO 4 ( 4) reveal their monomeric penta-coordinate nature with the isolated [Cu(L)(dca)] + cations and ClO 4 − counter ions. All the complexes with the exception of 2 adapt distorted square pyramidal geometry while the coordination polyhedron around the copper center in 2 may be described as a distorted trigonal bipyramidal stereochemistry. The visible spectra of the complexes in aqueous solutions or in methanol are in complete agreement with the assigned X-ray geometry around the Cu(II) centers.