An ion pair uniting a gadolinium(III)-Schiff base complex and uranyl tetrachloride

O Pons Y Moll; T Le Borgne; P Thuéry; M Ephritikhine

doi:10.1107/s0108270101001445

An ion pair uniting a gadolinium(III)-Schiff base complex and uranyl tetrachloride

Acta Crystallogr C. 2001 Apr;57(Pt 4):392-3. doi: 10.1107/s0108270101001445.

Authors

O Pons Y Moll¹, T Le Borgne, P Thuéry, M Ephritikhine

Affiliation

¹ CEA/Saclay, SCM (CNRS URA 331), Bâtiment 125, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

PMID: 11313570
DOI: 10.1107/s0108270101001445

Abstract

The Schiff base N-(tert-butyl)-3-methoxysalicylaldimine (LH) forms a complex with gadolinium(III) chloride, [GdCl(2)(LH)(2)(C(5)H(5)N)(2)](+), in which the two O atoms of each ligand are coordinated (the phenolic O atom being deprotonated) and the imine N atom is protonated and involved in a hydrogen bond with the phenoxide group. This complex crystallizes as an ion pair with uranyl tetrachloride, i.e. bis(bis[2-(tert-butyliminiomethyl)-6-methoxyphenolato-O,O']dichlorobis(pyridine-N)gadolinium(III)) tetrachlorodioxouranium(VI) tetrapyridine solvate [GdCl(2)(C(12)H(17)NO(2))(2)(C(5)H(5)N)(2)](2)[UCl(4)O(2)].4C(5)H(5)N. The U atom of the UCl(4)O(2) anion lies on an inversion centre.