metal-organic compounds
Figure 2
The zigzag chain of (I), running along the b axis.
Figure 3
structures. Due to the constraints imposed by chelation, the
coordination polyhedron of Cu1 is highly distorted.
As expected, the apical Cu1—O2 bond distance
A projection of (I) along the b axis, showing the crystal packing, ꢀ–ꢀ
interactions and hydrogen bonding (dashed lines). For emphasis, solvent
water molecules are shown with displacement ellipsoids (orange in the
electronic version of the paper).
˚
[2.546 (2) A] is significantly longer than the remaining four
distances in the Cu1 coordination polyhedron (Table 1).
Nevertheless, according to bond-valence analysis (Wills, 2009),
atom Cu1 is oversaturated (2.21 bond valence units). A short
˚
(Guo et al., 2010) and 3.3 A (Zhang et al., 2003; Li et al., 2009)
were found, in most reported ipht and substituted ipht
complexes the ꢀ–ꢀ interactions are weaker and the distances
˚
are in the range 3.5–3.9 A (Zhang et al., 2003; Li & Wei, 2007;
i
1
˚
Cu1—O3 contact of 3.0229 (18) A [symmetry code: (i) ꢂx + 2,
1
y ꢂ , ꢂz + 12], which is only slightly longer than the sum of the
2
˚
An et al., 2008; Ma et al., 2009; Guo et al., 2010; He et al., 2010).
In addition to ꢀ–ꢀ interactions, the zigzag chains in (I) are
also interconnected via hydrogen bonding, yielding a three-
dimensional metal–organic framework (Fig. 3). The hydrogen-
bonding geometry is listed in Table 2. Three of the four
hydrogen bonds are between the H2O molecule and O atoms
from different carboxylate groups, while the fourth is between
amine atom H5 from dipya and uncoordinated atom O3 from
the monodentate C18/O3/O4 group (Table 2). Atom O3 acts
as a double hydrogen-bond acceptor from the already
mentioned atom H5 and from atom H11 of the uncoordinated
water molecule. The remaining H atom (H12) of the water
molecule very likely participates in two hydrogen bonds, and
therefore this bond can be described as bifurcated. The Dꢀ ꢀ ꢀA
distance for O5—H12ꢀ ꢀ ꢀO1iii is longer but the angle is
acceptable, which is not the case for O5—H12ꢀ ꢀ ꢀO4iii, where
the distance is suitable but a much smaller angle [127 (3)ꢁ] is
found (distances and symmetry codes are in Table 2).
Since the initial positions of the H atoms were not found in
ÁF maps but were generated using a combined geometric and
force-field approach (Nardelli, 1999), they can not be
considered as very reliable. For a better insight into the
strength of the hydrogen bonding in (I), thermogravimetric
and differential scanning calorimetric (TG and DSC) analyses
were performed. It was found that the TG and DSC curves of
(I) are practically identical to the recently published curves of
the corresponding polycrystalline complex (Rogan et al.,
2011), so only dehydration will be discussed here. The dehy-
dration is a single-step process and the mass loss of 4.5%
between 396 and 450 K is attributed to the loss of the solvent
H2O molecule (calculated 4.3%). The endothermic peak in the
DSC curve relating to the dehydration process gives a molar
enthalpy of 50.4 kJ molꢂ1 which, together with the high final
dehydration temperature, indicates strong hydrogen bonding.
A similar value of the dehydration molar enthalpy was
recently found for an MnII complex {[Mn(C5O5)(bipy)-
van der Waals radii (2.92 A; Bondi, 1964), should also be
mentioned. Since the O2—Cu1—O3i angle is 160.56 (5)ꢁ, the
Cu1 environment could also be described as an extremely
deformed very elongated octahedron.
As usual, dipya is a chelating ligand in (I), while the ipht
anions act as bridging tridentate ligands with monodentate
(C18/O3/O4) and chelating (C11/O1/O2) carboxylate groups,
forming one-dimensional zigzag chains running along the b
axis (Fig. 2). The distance between two Cu1 atoms bridged by
˚
the ipht anion is 11.7216 (5) A, while the shortest interchain
˚
Cu1ꢀ ꢀ ꢀCu1 distance is 7.9931 (4) A. Very similar zigzag chains
are found in [Zn(ipht)(1-methylimidazole)2]n (Zhao, 2008a),
[Co(ipht)(1-ethylimidazole)2]n (Zhao, 2008b), [Cu(tbipht)-
(bipy)]n (bipy is 2,20-bipyridine and tbipht is 5-tert-butyliso-
phthalate; Li & Huang, 2008) and {[Mn(ipht)(bipy)(H2O)2]ꢀ-
H2O}n (Ma, Hu et al., 2010). In (I), the ipht aromatic ring and
the entire dipya ligand are nearly perpendicular to each other
[dihedral angle = 82.20 (6)ꢁ]. Considering the bridging role of
the ipht anion, the value of this angle is probably the main
reason for the existence of the zigzag chains.
All the dipya ligands in (I) are oriented approximately
parallel to the (102) plane (Fig. 3). This enables stacking of the
chains by face-to-face ꢀ–ꢀ interactions between neighbouring
dipya ligands. Although in mixed metal–organic complexes
(Rogan et al., 2006) the dihedral angle between the two
pyridine rings of dipya can reach 29ꢁ, in (I) this angle is very
small [7.68 (7)ꢁ] and both pyridine rings are involved in ꢀ–ꢀ
interactions. The shortest distances between C atoms of
v
˚
neighbouring dipya ligands are 3.307 (4) A for C5ꢀ ꢀ ꢀC5 and
v
1
2
˚
3.303 (4) A for C6ꢀ ꢀ ꢀC6 [symmetry code: (v) ꢂx, y, ꢂ z],
with corresponding Cgꢀ ꢀ ꢀCgv separations between aromatic
˚
rings of 3.502 (7) and 3.678 (7) A, respectively; these values
confirm strong face-to-face ꢀ–ꢀ interactions (Janiak, 2000). In
this way, hydrophilic and hydrophobic layers parallel to the bc
plane are formed. With a few exceptions, e.g. where ꢀ–ꢀ
interactions with centroid–centroid distances of around 3.2
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