Crystal and Molecular Structure of Potassium trans-1,2-Diaminocyclohexane-N,N′-tetraacetatomanganate(III) Monohydrate, K[Mn(DCTA)]•H2O
Crystals of the title compound are triclinic, a = 15.60(3), b = 8.66(2), c = 7.36(1) Å, α = 103.8(1), β = 95.7(1), γ = 70.7(3)°, Z = 2, space group [Formula: see text]. The measured and calculated densities are 1.69(2) and 1.656(6) g cm−3, respectively. The structure was determined by Patterson and Fourier synthesis and refined by full-matrix least-squares procedures to a final R of 0.067 for 2333 observed reflections. The structure is composed of layers of oxygen bridged potassium ions situated between two layers of [Mn(DCTA)]− anions, thus forming the basic structural unit which repeats along a. The manganese(III) is six-coordinated to the two nitrogen and four oxygen atoms of the hexadentate ligand, the coordination polyhedron being a very distorted octahedron with N—Mn—O and O—Mn—O angles of 77.1(2) and 128.5(2)°, respectively. The anion has approximate C2 symmetry with two classes of Mn—O bonds, mean bond lengths 1.887(7) and 2.015(22) Å; the mean Mn—N distance is 2.263(5) Å. The water molecule is twofold disordered and is coordinated to the potassium ion in both positions. The potassium ion is eight or nine coordinated to oxygen atoms depending on the position taken by the water molecule. Weak hydrogen bonds involving the water molecule are probably present, O…O distances range from 2.71(3) to 3.18(3) Å, as well as possible C—H…O hydrogen bonds with C…O distances ranging from 3.300(9) to 3.388(8) Å.