Synthesis, structure and solution chemistry of dioxidovanadium(V) complexes with a family of hydrazone ligands. Evidence of formation of centrosymmetric dimers via H-bonds in the solid state

Abstract

[V IVO(acac) 2] reacts with the methanol solution of tridentate ONO donor hydrazone ligands (H 2L 1–4, general abbreviation H 2L; are derived from the condensation of benzoyl hydrazine with 2-hydroxyacetophenone and its 5-substituted derivatives) in presence of neutral monodentate alkyl amine bases having stronger basicity than pyridine e.g., ethylamine, diethylamine, triethylamine and piperidine (general abbreviation B) to produce BH +[VO 2L] − ( 1– 16) complexes. Five of these sixteen complexes are structurally characterized revealing that the vanadium is present in the anionic part of the molecule, [VO 2L] − in a distorted square pyramidal environment. The complexes 5, 6, 15 and 16 containing two H-atoms associated with the amine- N atom in their cationic part (e.g., diethylammonium and piperidinium ion) are involved in H-bonding with a neighboring molecule resulting in the formation of centrosymmetric dimers while the complex 12 (containing only one hydrogen atom in the cationic part) exhibits normal H-bonding. The nature of the H-bonds in each of the four centrosymmetric dimeric complexes is different. These complexes have potential catalytic activity in the aerial oxidation of l-ascorbic acid and are converted into the [VO(L)(hq)] complexes containing VO 3+ motif on reaction with equimolar amount of 8-hydroxyquinoline (Hhq) in methanol.