Abstract
The metal coordination geometry in the active site of metalloproteins are very different from the one of small inorganic complexes, due to the inflexibility of the ligand set from amino acid side chains different from freely moving ligand set in synthesis. Using the sterically hindered 2,6-di-(p-fluorophenyl)benzoate(L) ligand, a series of mononuclear Co(II), Ni(II) and Cu(II) complexes of general formula [M(L)2(Hdmpz) 2] (where, Hdmpz = 3,5-dimethyl pyrazole) have been synthesized and characterized by the variety of spectroscopic methods. A distorted octahedral geometry in case of nickel, tetrahedral geometry for cobalt and square pyramidal in copper was observed in the X-ray studies, which also revealed that the uncoordinated oxygen atom of the carboxylate group forms intramolecular hydrogen bonding with the N-H group of the coordinated 3,5-dimethylpyrazole in case of cobalt and copper.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 340-346 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Polyhedron |
Volume | 30 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2011 Feb 1 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported partly by the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) grant and the Converging Research Center Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) (No. 2009-0082832 ) funded by the Korea government (MEST). This work was also supported in part by KIST (Korea Institute of Science & Technology) for ‘National Agenda Project program’, the faculty research program 2009 of Kookmin University in Korea and the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) grant funded by the Korea government (MEST) (No. R11-2005-048-00000-0 ).
Keywords
- 3,5-Dimethylpyrazole
- Crystal structures
- Mononuclear metal complexes
- Sterically hindered carboxylate ligand
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Materials Chemistry