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gravity flow employing SP-Sephadex C25 (Naþ form) ion
exchange resin. Electronic absorption spectra were measured
with a SCINCO S-2100 diode array spectrophotometer and
elemental analysis on a Chemtronics TEA-3000 analyser.
Crystals used for X-ray diffraction were stored under the cor-
responding reaction solution before mounting on the diffrac-
tometer. Samples for microanalysis were dried at 608C in air. An
X-Band (9 GHz) EPR spectrum was recorded on a Jeol (Japan)
JES-TE300 ESR spectrometer using a 100 kHz field modulation
and a Jeol ES-DVT3 variable temperature controller. The
spectroscopic simulation was performed using the program
Simfonia (v. 1.25, Bruker Instruments Inc.). Magnetic suscep-
tibilities of ground samples were measured on a super-
mixture was heated at 808C for 12 h under nitrogen. The pale
yellow solution was cooled to room temperature and NaBH4
(12.0 g) was slowly added. The mixture was stirred overnight
and then 1.0 mol Lꢁ1 HCl (5 mL) followed by 1.0 mol Lꢁ1
NaOH (5 mL) were added and the solution was evaporated to
dryness under reduced pressure and the residue dissolved in
water (100 mL). The solution was extracted with dichlor-
omethane (50 mL ꢂ 5), the combined extracts were washed with
water (50 mL ꢂ 3) and then dried over Na2SO4. This solution
was evaporated under reduced pressure to give the product as a
brown oil which was used for complex formation without further
purification (yield: 11.7 g).
The above product (7.7 g) was dissolved in acrylonitrile
(38.0 g) and glacial acetic acid (2.9 g) was added. The mixture
was heated at reflux for 72 h under a nitrogen atmosphere. The
resulting deep brown solution was evaporated to dryness under
reduced pressure. Dichloromethane (100 mL) was added and the
solution was washed with 0.88 mol Lꢁ1 NH3 (100 mL) and then
water (3 ꢂ 100 mL) and the organic phase was dried over
Na2SO4. The solution then was evaporated to dryness under
reduced pressure to give a yellow oil which was dissolved in
methanol (50 mL). Raney-Ni (4.0 g) in water (20 mL) was added
followed by slow addition of NaBH4 (18.9 g) in 4 % NaOH
(200 mL) with vigorous stirring at 608C. The mixture was stirred
overnight and then filtered through Celite and evaporated to
dryness under reduced pressure. The residue was dissolved in
8 mol Lꢁ1 NaOH (50 mL) and extracted with dichloromethane
(5 ꢂ 50 mL). The combined extracts were dried over anhydrous
Na2SO4 and evaporated under reduced pressure to give L2 as a
brown oil that was used for complex formation without further
purification (yield: 6.8 g).
The above product (5.4 g) was dissolved in methanol
(100 mL) and CuCl2ꢀ2H2O (4.3 g) in methanol (100 mL) was
added with stirring. The blue mixture was evaporated to dryness
under reduced pressure and the residue was dissolved in water
(1 L) and the solution was filtered. The filtrate was applied to a
SP-Sephadex C-25 (Naþ form) in a column which was initially
washed with water (300 mL) and then eluted with 0.3 mol Lꢁ1
NaCl. The (major) blue band was separated and the eluent
evaporated to dryness under reduced pressure. The complex
product was then extracted several times into ethanol to remove
NaCl. The extracts were evaporated to dryness under reduced
pressure (yield: 5.2 g). The residue was dissolved in a minimum
volume of water and slow evaporation of the solution at ambient
temperature after addition of LiClO4 provided blue crystals
suitable for a structure determination. (Anal. Calc. for
C26H38Cl4Cu2N6O5: C 39.86, H 4.89, N 10.73. Found: C 39.2,
H 4.87, N 10.5 %.) lmax (water)/nm (e/Mꢁ1 cmꢁ1) 625 (2105).
conducting
quantum
interference
device
(SQUID)
magnetometer (Quantum Design MPMS-5S) under an external
field of 5000 Oe. The EPR spectra were measured using the
following conditions: microwave frequency, 9.133 GHz;
microwave power, 1.0 mW; modulation amplitude, 10 G; time
constant, 0.3 s; scan speed, 1250 G minꢁ1. Simulation para-
meters for EPR of 1: g ¼ [2.050 2.050 2.215]; ACu ¼ [0 0 170] G;
linewidth ¼ [45 45 45] G along the g-tensor frame.
[CuL1](ClO4)2 (1) (where L1 5 N1-(2-aminoethyl)-2,2-
dimethyl-N1,N3-bis(pyridin-2-ylmethyl)- propane-
1,3-diamine))
2,2-Dimethylpropane-1,3-diamine (5.1 g) and 2-pyridine-
carboxaldehyde (10.7 g) were reacted in methanol (100 mL) and
treated with NaBH4 (8.0 g) in an analogous manner to that
described for the initial step in the above procedure to give the
crude product (yield: 11.1 g). The product (8.0 g) was dissolved
in acetonitrile (150 mL), tosylaziridine (11.2 g) was added, and
then the mixture was heated at the reflux for 6 h. The dark red
solution was evaporated under reduced pressure to give a dark
red oil. Concentrated H2SO4 (100 mL) was slowly added and the
mixture was heated with continuous stirring at 1308C for 72 h.
The solution was cooled in an ice bath and ethanol/diethyl ether
(1 : 1, 1500 mL) was slowly added to give a hygroscopic dark
brown precipitate that was separated by filtration and then
immediately dissolved in 5 mol Lꢁ1 NaOH (150 mL) and
extracted with chloroform (3 ꢂ 100 mL). The combined extracts
were evaporated under reduced pressure to give a red oil. This
was dissolved in methanol (150 mL) and CuCl2ꢀ2H2O (4.8 g)
was added with stirring and stirring was continued for 30 min.
The mixture was evaporated to dryness under reduced pressure.
The blue residue was dissolved in water (500 mL) and chro-
matographed on an SP Sephadex column with 0.3 mol Lꢁ1 NaCl
as per the method above. The blue major band was collected, the
solution was evaporated to dryness under reduced pressure, and
the residue was extracted with ethanol to separate NaCl. The
ethanol solution was then evaporated under reduced pressure to
give a blue powder (yield: 4.3 g). This was dissolved in a min-
imum volume of warm water containing an excess of LiClO4ꢀ
Slow evaporation of the solution at ambient temperature yielded
blue crystals suitable for a structure determination. (Anal. Calc.
for C19H29Cl2CuN5O8: C 38.68, H 4.96, N 11.87. Found: C 38.8,
H 5.01, N 11.6 %.) lmax (water)/nm (e/Mꢁ1 cmꢁ1) 633 (1265).
Crystallography
The data were collected at 150(2) K on a Nonius Kappa-CCD
area detector diffractometer[7] using graphite-monochromated
˚
MoKa radiation (l 0.71073 A). The crystals were introduced into
glass capillaries with a protecting ‘Paratone-N’ oil (Hampton
Research) coating. The unit cell parameters were determined
from 10 frames, and then refined on all data. The data (combi-
nations of j- and v-scans with a minimum redundancy of 4 for
90 % of the reflections) were processed with HKL2000.[8]
Absorption effects were corrected empirically with the program
SCALEPACK.[8] The structures were solved by direct methods
with SHELXS-97, expanded by subsequent Fourier-difference
synthesis and refined by full-matrix least-squares on F2 with
0
[Cl2Cu(L2)CuCl(H2O)]ClO4 (2) (where L2 5 N1,N1 -(1,3-
phenylenebis(methylene))bis(N1-(pyridin-2-ylmethyl)
propane-1,3-diamine))
m-Xylylenediamine (5.1 g) was dissolved in dry ethanol
(100 mL), 2-pyridine-carboxaldehyde (8.1 g) was added, and the