Hydrogen bonded 2,2′-biimidazolate transition metal complexes as a tool of crystal engineering

✍ Scribed by Makoto Tadokoro; Kazuhiro Nakasuji

• Book ID: 104112051
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 776 KB
• Volume: 198
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-8545
• DOI: 10.1016/s0010-8545(99)00223-4

✦ Synopsis

In the field of crystal engineering, many attempts have been made to control the molecular arrangements in crystal by simultaneous use of coordination bonds of a transition metal ion and complementary intermolecular hydrogen bonds. We obtained the first crystal structure of the hydrogen bonded metal complex of 2,2%-biimidazolate monoanion ligand Hbim -with Cu(II) as a neutral dimer metal complex. The hydrogen-bonded dimer structure indicates that the Hbim -ligand controls the crystal structure using not only the coordination to a transition metal ion as a bidentate chelate but simultaneously the formation of complemen-