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Solvent-Dependent Access to Two Different Ni4II Core Topologies from the First Use of Pyridine-2,6-dimethanol in Nickel(ii) Cluster Chemistry

Konstantina I. Alexopoulou A , Catherine P. Raptopoulou B , Vassilis Psycharis B , Aris Terzis B , Vassilis Tangoulis C E , Theocharis C. Stamatatos D E and Spyros P. Perlepes A E
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A Department of Chemistry, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece.

B Institute of Materials Science, Pysicochemical Processes, Nanotechnology and Microsystems, Department of Materials Science, National Center for Scientific Research ‘Demokritos’, 15310 Aghia Paraskevi Attikis, Greece.

C Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, PO Box 135, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.

D Department of Chemistry, Brock University, L2S 3A1 Saint Catharines, ON, Canada.

E Corresponding authors. Email: tstamatatos@brocku.ca; vtagkoul@chem.auth.gr; perlepes@patreas.upatras.gr

Australian Journal of Chemistry 65(12) 1608-1619 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH12424
Submitted: 14 September 2012  Accepted: 14 October 2012   Published: 16 November 2012

Abstract

The use of pyridine-2,6-dimethanol, pdmH2, in reactions with nickel(ii) acetate has led to two Ni4 clusters, depending on the solvent. [Ni4(O2CMe)4(pdmH)4]·MeCN (1·MeCN) can be obtained from MeCN and [Ni4(O2CMe)6(pdmH)2(EtOH)2]·1.2EtOH (2·1.2EtOH) from EtOH. Each cluster can be converted into the other in the appropriate solvent. The tetranuclear cluster molecule 1 possesses a distorted cubane {Ni43-OR)4}4+ core (RO = pdmH) with the NiII atoms and the alkoxide-type oxygen atoms from the η3 : η1 : μ3 pdmH ligands occupying alternate vertices of the cube; four η1 : η1 : μ MeCO2 groups cap four faces of the cube. The four NiII atoms in molecule 2 are located at four vertices of a defective dicubane and are bridged by six oxygen atoms, two μ3 from the η3 : η1 : η1 : μ3 pdmH ligands and four from four monoatomically bridging MeCO2 groups; peripheral ligation is provided by two η1 : η1 : μ MeCO2 groups and two terminal EtOH ligands. IR data are discussed in terms of the coordination modes of the ligands. Variable-temperature direct-current magnetic susceptibility data of 1 and 2 were modelled with two and three J values respectively, indicating diamagnetic ground states (S = 0). The sign and the magnitude of the J values are discussed in terms of structural features of the complexes.


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