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Investigating the competitive factors of metal-anion coordination, coordination by water, and hydrogen bonding in complexes of cyanuric acid with the alkaline earth metals

Lookup NU author(s): Professor William Clegg, Gary Nichol

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Abstract

A survey of the trends in metal-ligand coordination and hydrogen bonding has been carried out on complexes of singly deprotonated cyanuric acid CY and alkaline earth metals, synthesised from aqueous solution and characterised by X-ray crystallography. Involvement of cyanurate in the metal coordination increases from Mg through Ca and Sr to Ba relative to coordination by water, in parallel with the increasing ionic radius and coordination number. The incidence of bridging of metal centres by both water and cyanurate also increases in this series. The Mg complex [Mg(H2O)6][CY]2·2H2O contains hexaaqua-coordinated cations, uncoordinated CY anions, and additional water molecules. Ca and Sr complexes {[Ca(CY)(H2O)3][CY]} and {[Sr(CY)2(H2O)4]} feature polymeric chains of coordinated metal ions, the Ca complex with uncoordinated anions and the Sr complex with all potential ligands coordinated. The Ba complex {[Ba(CY)2(H2O)2]} has a two-dimensional coordination network. Extensive hydrogen bonding plays a key role in generating a three-dimensional network in all four structures. The competition between cyanurate and water for coordination to the alkaline earth metal cations, and that between coordination and hydrogen bonding propensities of the cyanurate anion, appear to be finely balanced, with the structural outcomes depending on the relative sizes and degrees of hardness of the four cations of the group.


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Author(s): Clegg W, Nichol GS

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Crystals

Year: 2024

Volume: 14

Issue: 1

Online publication date: 22/01/2024

Acceptance date: 16/01/2024

Date deposited: 16/01/2024

ISSN (electronic): 2073-4352

Publisher: MDPI

URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst14010098

DOI: 10.3390/cryst14010098

Data Access Statement: Processed X-ray diffraction data are available as part of the information deposited at the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre. These may also be obtained from the author (W.C.) on request.


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