Structural Systematics of Lanthanide(III) Picrate Solvates: Molecular, Mononuclear Ln(pic)3(trimethylphosphate)3 Arrays

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (6) ◽  
pp. 462
Author(s):  
Eric J. Chan ◽  
Jack M. Harrowfield ◽  
Brian W. Skelton ◽  
Alexandre N. Sobolev ◽  
Allan H. White

Adducts of the form Ln(pic)3(tmp)3 (Ln=lanthanide(iii); pic=picrate=2,4,6-trinitrophenoxide; tmp=trimethylphosphate, (MeO)3PO) have been prepared for extremal Ln=La, Lu and some intermediate members, also Y, and characterised by single crystal X-ray structure determinations as unsolvated, mononuclear, molecular species. The lanthanide atom has nine-coordinate, tri-capped trigonal prismatic stereochemistry in all cases, the picrate components behaving as O,O′-bidentate ligands chelating through the phenoxy- and an adjacent O-nitro oxygen atom, thus: [Ln(tmp-O)3(pic-O,O′)3]. Two isomeric forms are found, one mer in which the three unidentate tmp-O ligands coordinate in cis-sites spanning the upper and lower triangles and a capping site of the coordination sphere, and fac, in which all three unidentate ligands occupy the mutually cis-sites of one triangular face. The mer isomer has been described as an isomorphous series in a monoclinic P21/c, Z 4, form, for Ln=La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd, Lu, and Y, presumptively accessible for the full gamut of Ln. The fac-isomer also crystallises in a monoclinic P21/c form, Z 8, two independent molecules of similar stereochemistry here comprising the asymmetric unit and described for Ln=Eu, Lu(isomorphous); it has also been described in a triclinic P, Z 2 form for Ln=La.

2002 ◽  
Vol 57 (8) ◽  
pp. 914-921 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Jones ◽  
J. Ossowski ◽  
P. Kus

N,N′-Dibutyl-terephthaldiamide (1), N,N′-dihexyl-terephthaldiamide (2), N,N′-di(tert-butyl)- terephthaldiamide (3), N,N,N′,N′-tetrabutyl-terephthaldiamide (4), 1,1′-terephthaloylbis- pyrrolidine (5), 1,1′-terephthaloyl-bis-piperidine (6), and 4,4′-terephthaloyl-bis-morpholine (7) have been synthesised and physicochemically characterised. The X-ray structure determinations reveal imposed inversion symmetry for compounds 1-6; compound 3 has two independent molecules with inversion symmetry in the asymmetric unit. Compounds 1-3 form classical hydrogen bonds of the type N-H···O=C, leading to a ribbon-like arrangement of molecules (1 and 2) or a layer structure (3). Compound 3 also displays a very short C-H···O interaction, a type of hydrogen bond that is also observed in compounds 4-7, which lack classical donors; thereby compounds 4-6 form layer structures and 7 a complex threedimensional network.


2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (6) ◽  
pp. 447
Author(s):  
Zouhair Asfari ◽  
Eric J. Chan ◽  
Jack M. Harrowfield ◽  
Brian W. Skelton ◽  
Alexandre N. Sobolev ◽  
...  

Adducts of dimethylsulfoxide, dmso=Me2SO, with lanthanide(iii) picrates (picrate=2,4,6-trinitrophenoxide, pic) of stoichiometry Ln(pic)3·3dmso have been prepared and characterised by single-crystal X-ray structure determinations as discrete, neutral, mononuclear molecular species. Such complexes have been obtained across the gamut of Ln, specifically for Ln=La, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd, Dy, Yb, Lu, and Y, presumably also accessible for other intermediate members, the series being isomorphous (monoclinic, C2/c, Z=8); a second triclinic P form has also been identified for Ln=La, Pr. In both forms, the metal atom coordination environments are nine-coordinate, tricapped trigonal prismatic, [Ln(dmso-O)3(pic-O,O′)3], two of the three unidentate ligands lying in one of the trigonal planes and one in the other (an isomer we have termed meridional, mer). A hydrated form of Ln(pic)3·2dmso·H2O stoichiometry has also been defined for Ln=Sm, Gd, Lu, the metal atom environment again nine-coordinate, [Ln(dmso-O)2(H2O)(pic-O,O′)3], but now fac, with the three unidentate ligands occupying one triangular face of the tricapped trigonal prism and involved in a centrosymmetric H-bonding array with the three similar ligands of an adjacent complex; the three capping atoms are nitro-oxygen atoms, the phenoxy-O triad occupying the other face.


1975 ◽  
Vol 53 (23) ◽  
pp. 3596-3598 ◽  
Author(s):  
François Brisse ◽  
Aviva Battat ◽  
Jean-Claude Richer ◽  
Pierre Mazerolles ◽  
Alfreda Faucher

1,1-Dimethyl-1-germa (and-1-sila) -6,7-cycloundecanediol (C12H26O2Ge and C12H26O2Si) are isostructural as established by their X-ray powder patterns. The dimensions of the triclinic cells are as follows: for the silicon derivative, a = 10.53, b = 12.45, and c = 12.43 Å, α = 81.5°, β = 67.0°, and γ = 76.3°; for the germanium derivative, a = 10.56, b = 12.50, and c = 12.58 Å, α = 82.1°, β = 67.8°, and γ = 76.1°. If the space group is [Formula: see text] there will be two independent molecules in each asymmetric unit.


2008 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan B. van Mechelen ◽  
Rene Peschar ◽  
Henk Schenk

The β_1^{\prime}-2 crystal structures of a series of mixed-chain saturated and trans-mono-unsaturated triacylglycerols containing palmitoyl, stearoyl and elaidoyl acyl chains have been solved from high-resolution powder diffraction data, from synchrotron as well as laboratory X-ray sources. The structures crystallized in the space group I2 with two independent molecules forming a dimer in the asymmetric unit, and packed in double-chain length layers. Unlike the corresponding β-2 structures the solved β_1^{\prime}-2 structures have different molecular conformations for the symmetric and the asymmetric mixed triacylglycerols, both with the sn-2 chain in a leg position of the chair-shaped conformation. A transformation to the β-2 structure with the sn-2 chain in the back position is complicated and unlikely to take place in the solid state. A novel β′-2 polymorph of PSS has been crystallized and its structure has been solved. The melting point (239 K) of this so-called β_0^{\prime}-2 polymorph is 2 K above that of the β_1^{\prime}-2 polymorph and almost equal to that of the β-2 polymorph of PSS. The difference in packing of the β_0^{\prime}-2 versus β_1^{\prime}-2 structure explains the slow β_1^{\prime}-2 to β_0^{\prime}-2 phase transition. The transition is strikingly similar to the β2-3 to β1-3 transition in cis-mono-unsaturated triacylglycerols.


2012 ◽  
Vol 68 (8) ◽  
pp. o2358-o2358 ◽  
Author(s):  
María-Guadalupe Hernández Linares ◽  
Gabriel Guerrero-Luna ◽  
Sylvain Bernès ◽  
Marcos Flores-Alamo ◽  
María A. Fernández-Herrera

Diosgenone [(20S,22R,25R)-spirost-4-en-3-one, C27H40O3] has been proposed as a new therapeutic alternative for the treatment of malaria. The first X-ray structure report for diosgenone was by Piroet al.[(2002).Z. Naturforsch. Teil C,57, 947–950] in the space groupP21(Z′ = 2). We now report a new polymorph in the same space group, with two molecules in the asymmetric unit. Both molecules have similar conformations, characterized by a skewed envelopeAring, which contains the C=C bond conjugated with the ketone functionality at C3. The dimorphism results from a modification of the relative orientation of the molecules in the asymmetric unit: two independent molecules were arranged antiparallel in the Piro report, while they are parallel in the present determination.


1999 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 441-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lourdes Infantes ◽  
Concepción Foces-Foces ◽  
Jose Elguero

The crystal and molecular structures of 3(5),4-dimethylpyrazole, C5H8N2, (I), and of 3,4,5-trimethylpyrazole, C6H10N2, (II), have been determined at 200 K. In (I) the 4,5-dimethylpyrazole tautomer is present in the solid state and the six independent molecules in the asymmetric unit form trimers via NH...N hydrogen bonds related by a pseudo centre of symmetry. The asymmetric unit of (II) contains one and a half molecules: these exhibit NH proton disorder and are hydrogen bonded to each other via their respective NH groups to form chains. Ab initio calculations at HF and B3LYP/6-31G** levels indicate that the 3,4-dimethylpyrazole tautomer is more stable than the 4,5-dimethylpyrazole tautomer by only approximately 0.5  kcal  mol−1 (1 kcal mol−1 = 4.184 kJ mol−1).


2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (6) ◽  
pp. 455
Author(s):  
Eric J. Chan ◽  
Jack M. Harrowfield ◽  
Brian W. Skelton ◽  
Alexandre N. Sobolev ◽  
Allan H. White

Single crystal X-ray structural characterisations are reported for adducts of the form [(L-O)Eu(O,O′-dpm)3] obtained by the crystallisation of tris(dipivaloylmethanato)europium(iii) (dpm=[HC(C(tBu).CO)2]−) from an array of dipolar aprotic oxygen-donor solvents L (L=N-methylpyrrolidinone (nmp), trimethylphosphate, (MeO)3PO, (tmp), hexamethylphosphoramide (hmpa), dimethylacetamide (dma), dimethyl sulfoxide (dmso), and the bidentate octamethylpyrophosphoramide (ompa). In all adducts, the resulting arrays contain seven-coordinate metal atoms, which adopt two different isomeric forms of the mono-capped trigonal prismatic stereochemistry, the L=dma and dmso adducts corresponding to one type, nmp and tmp the other. The adduct formed with ompa behaves as a pair of discrete metal environments bridged by the O-ompa-O′ ligand, thus; [(dpm-O,O′)3Eu(O-ompa-O′)Eu(O,O′-dpm)3], and is found in two forms, one in which both Eu environments is of the tmp type, the other of the dmso/dma type. In the hmpa adduct, the asymmetric unit of the structure is a disordered composite of both types. In none of the adducts is there any further solvation beyond coordination of a single L.


2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (6) ◽  
pp. 529
Author(s):  
Eric J. Chan ◽  
Simon A. Cotton ◽  
Jack M. Harrowfield ◽  
Brian W. Skelton ◽  
Alexandre N. Sobolev ◽  
...  

Reactions of the lanthanide(iii) picrates (picrate=2,4,6-trinitrophenoxide=pic) with 1,10-phenanthroline (phen) and 2,2′:6′,2′′-terpyridine (terpy) in a 1:2 molar ratio have provided crystals suitable for X-ray structure determinations in instances predominantly involving the lighter lanthanides. In all, the aza-aromatic ligands chelate the lanthanide ion, none being found as ‘free’ ligands within the lattice. The complexes of 1,10-phenanthroline have been characterised in two forms, one unsolvated (Ln=La, Sm, Eu; monoclinic, C2/c, Z 8), one an acetonitrile monosolvate (Ln=Gd; monoclinic, P21/a, Z 4), the latter being the only previously known form (with Ln=La). In both forms, the LnIII is nine-coordinate, in an approximately tricapped trigonal-prismatic environment, with two picrate ligands chelating through phenoxide and 2-nitro group oxygen atoms, the third being bound through phenoxide-O only. The 2,2′:6′,2′′-terpyridine complexes, all acetonitrile monosolvates defined for Ln=La, Gd, Er, and Y (monoclinic, C2/c, Z 4), are ionic, one picrate having been displaced from the primary coordination sphere. For Ln=La, the two bound picrates are again chelating, making the LaIII 10-coordinate in a distorted bicapped square-antiprismatic environment but in the other species they are bound through phenoxide-O only, making the LnIII ions eight-coordinate in a distorted square-antiprismatic environment. Stacked arrays of the ligands can be found in both series of complexes, with intramolecular picrate–picrate and picrate–aza-aromatic stacks being prominent features.


1988 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Schumann ◽  
J. Loebel ◽  
D. van der Helm ◽  
M. B. Hossain

The title compound (1) is obtained as brownish crystals by reaction of HOCl3 with NaC5Me5 in tetrahydrofuran. The structure of 1, which has two slightly different independent molecules per asymmetric unit, has been elucidated by X-ray analysis. The crystals are triclinic with a = 1686.2(8) pm, b = 1816(1) pm, c = 846.5(4) pm, α = 92.02(7)°, β = 92.47(9)°, γ = 63.21(5)°, space group P1̄, D(calcd) = 1.560 g/cm3, and R = 0.0286, for 6219 observed reflections with I > 3σ(I).


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