Syntheses, structures, and properties of two luminous mercury(II) halide compounds containing a tetradentate N-donor Schiff base
摘要:
A 1D coordination polymer [Hg-2(L)Br-4](n) (1) and one dinuclear compound [Hg-2(L)I-4] (2) [L = N,N'-(bis(pyridin-2-yl)benzylidene)ethane-1,2-diamine] are isolated using a 2:1 M ratio of HgBr2/HgI2 and Schiff base (L) in methanol-acetonitrile solution mixture and X-ray crystallographically characterized. Structural analyses show that in 1 1D chain is formed through binucleating bis(bidentate) bridging behavior of L and asymmetric Hg-(mu-Br)(2)-Hg bridges in an alternate fashion; one terminal bromide unit completes the distorted square pyramidal geometry around each mercury(II). In 2, two mercury(11) centers are connected by bis(bidentate) bridging behavior of L and two iodides bound to each metal(11) center remain as terminal resulting in a discrete dinuclear entity with distorted tetrahedral geometry. Weak intermolecular Hg center dot center dot center dot I and I center dot center dot center dot I interactions in 2 promote dimensionality. In DMF solutions, 1 and 2 display intraligand (1)(pi-pi*) fluorescence. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.