ISSN 0036ꢀ0236, Russian Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2010, Vol. 55, No. 5, pp. 714–726. © Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2010.
Original Russian Text © E.V. Perova, M.A. Yakovleva, E.O. Baranova, I.V. Anan’ev, S.E. Nefedov, 2010, published in Zhurnal Neorganicheskoi Khimii, 2010, Vol. 55, No. 5,
pp. 768–780.
COORDINATION COMPOUNDS
Reactions of Aqueous Copper Acetate with Triethylamine
and 3,5ꢀDimethylpyrazole
E. V. Perova, M. A. Yakovleva, E. O. Baranova, I. V. Anan’ev, and S. E. Nefedov
Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Leninskii pr. 31, Moscow, 119991 Russia
eꢀmail: snef@igic.ras.ru
Received September 12, 2009
Abstract—The dissolution of aqueous copper acetate in tetrahydrofuran gives the Cu (µꢀOOCMe) (thf)
2
4 2
4
complex (
OOCMe(HNEt )]}n polymer
Cu(Hdmpz) (OOCMe) (
1
), and its reaction with triethylamine in the presence of acetic acid yields {[Cu (
µ
ꢀOOCMe) [µꢀ
2
(
2
). Complexes
and Cu ( ꢀOOCMe) (Hdmpz) (4)
2
1
4
and
4 0.5C H (5) are determined by Xꢀray diffraction.
6 6
2
react with 3,5ꢀdimethylpyrazole to form
3
3
)
µ
, respectively. The structures of complexes
2
2
2
1
–4
and that of solvate
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DOI: 10.1134/S0036023610050104
Studies of the specific features of 3,5ꢀdimethylꢀ substituent R in the carboxylate anion in addition to
the nature of the transition metal.
pyrazole (Hdmpz) deprotonation in the presence
of M2(
ꢀOOCBut)4(NEt3)2 (M = Zn, Cu, Ni, Co)
showed that, depending on the transition metal
either the binuclear pyrazolateꢀbridged complexes
M2(
ꢀdmpz)2(Hdmpz)2(OOCBut)2 (M = Zn, Co)
or a mixture of the monoꢀ and binuclear comꢀ
plexes and
M(OOCBut)2(Hdmpz)2
M2(
ꢀOOCBut)4(Hdmpz)2 (M = Ni, Cu) were
μ
Such simple biꢀ and trinuclear pyrazolateꢀbridged
transition metal complexes can be suitable starting
reactants and/or intermediates in the formation of
more complicated polynuclear compounds and clusꢀ
ters up to pyrazolateꢀbridged organometallic polymers
suspected of having unusual magnetic, catalytic, and
electronꢀoptical properties [9–12].
,
μ
μ
formed under the same conditions [1–5]. Unlike the
binuclear nickel complex, the copper complex conꢀ
tains intramolecular hydrogen bonds of the NH
fragments of coordinated pyrazole and the oxygen
atoms of one bridging pivalate anion, which makes
it possible to deprotonate pyrazole during thermoꢀ
lysis to form a pyrazolate–pivalate bridged polymer,
This work concerns synthetic approaches to the
preparation of complexes based on copper acetate by
reactions with triethylamine and 3,5ꢀdimethylpyraꢀ
zole and features of their structure and hydrogen
bonding compared to analogous reactions of binuclear
copper pivalate.
whose reaction with Hdmpz yields the Cu2(
μ
ꢀ
dmpz)2(Hdmpz)2(OOCBut)2
pyrazolateꢀbridging
EXPERIMENTAL
dimer [2]. No pyrazolate anions were observed in the
thermolysis products of the binuclear nickel complex
[6]. The change in the nature of substituent R in the
carboxylate anion on going to the less donating aceꢀ
tate anion results in the formation of the pyrazolateꢀ
All procedures on the synthesis and isolation of the
complexes were carried out under pure argon using
anhydrous solvents.
IR spectra were recorded with Specord Mꢀ80 and
NexusꢀNicolet spectrophotometers as KBr pellets in
the frequency range 400–4000 cm–1.
bridged
dmpz)2(Hdmpz)2(OOCMe)2 and the trinuclear cobalt
complex Co2( ꢀdmpz)4(Hdmpz)2(OOCMe)2 upon
binuclear
zinc
complex Zn2(
μꢀ
μ
Xꢀray diffraction studies were performed according
to a standard procedure on a Bruker SMART Apex II
automated diffractometer equipped with a CCD
the interaction of the reaction products of aqueous
zinc and cobalt acetates and triethylamine with
Hdmpz [7, 8]. Thus, the earlier studies showed that the
composition, structure, and tendencies of intraꢀ and
intermolecular hydrogen bonding in the pyrazolateꢀ
and 3,5ꢀdimethylpyrazolateꢀbridged biꢀ and trinuꢀ
detector (λMo radiation, graphite monochromator,
ω
scan mode). The structures were calculated using the
SHELXTL PLUS program package (PC version). The
structures were refined using the SHELXTLꢀ97 proꢀ
clear complexes are dictated by the donor ability of gram package [13, 14].
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