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Alkali metal complexes of 6-methyl-2-pyridone: simple formulae, but not so simple structures

Lookup NU author(s): Professor William Clegg, Duncan Tooke

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Abstract

Reaction of 6-methyl-2-pyridone (Hmhp) with Na or K metal, or with Rb or Cs 2-ethylhexoxide, in an appropriate single or mixed solvent, yields a series of solvated polymeric complexes with the empirical formulae M(mhp)(H2O)(2) [(1), M = Na; (2), M = K], M(mhp)(H2O) [(3), M = Rb; (4), M = Cs] and Cs(mhp)(ROH) [(5), R = Me; (6), R = Et]. All of the products have been crystallographically characterized and show sheet polymeric structures, except for a double-chain structure for (2). In all of the structures, mhp(-) and solvent molecules function as bridging ligands; two metal ions are bridged (mu(2)) by each solvent molecule in (1), (5) and (6), while (2) contains both mu(2) and mu(3) triple bridges, and (3) and (4) display highly unusual mu(4) quadruple bridging of metal ions by water molecules. The pyridonate O atom bridges two or three metal ions in each case. Nitrogen is also involved in coordination to the heavier metals; it bonds to a single ion in (3) and (4), but has an almost unprecedented bridging role in (5) and (6). As a result of the extensive bridging by ligands, coordination numbers between 6 and 8 are achieved for the metal ions. In each structure, all solvent OH groups form hydrogen bonds to pyridonate O and, in some cases, N atoms. With one exception, these are the first reported pyridonate complexes of the alkali metals Na-Cs that do not also include transition metals.


Publication metadata

Author(s): Clegg W, Tooke DM

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science

Year: 2013

Volume: 69

Pages: 603-612

Print publication date: 01/12/2013

ISSN (print): 0108-7681

ISSN (electronic): 1600-5740

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S2052519213025980

DOI: 10.1107/S2052519213025980


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