Synthesis, characterization, and crystal structure of a 2-D metal diphosphonate: Cu3(H2O)2[HO3PCH2N(CH3)CH2PO3]2 · 2H2O

Abstract

Hydrothermal reaction of N-methyl-iminobis(methylenephosphonic acid), CH3N(CH2PO3H2)2, (H4L) with copper(II) acetate afforded a new layered Cu(II) amino diphosphonate, Cu3(H2O)2(HL)2 · 2H2O (1). Compound 1 was studied by IR spectroscopy, TGA/DTA data, and X-ray diffraction (XRD) techniques. The XRD patterns are the same for the hydrated and the dehydrated complexes. A single-crystal X-ray crystallographic determination reveals copper in two different coordination environments. Cu1 has a distorted elongated tetragonal octahedral geometry, whereas Cu2 has a square-pyramidal distorted geometry. The HL trianion is a pentadentate ligand with a deprotonated nitrogen atom and two oxygen atoms of each phosphonate binding to copper. Hydrogen bonds between lattice water molecules in interlayer spaces and the non-coordinated phosphonate oxygen atoms as well as water ligands leads to a 3-D supramolecular network structure.