Two isomorphous imidazole (Him) complexes: [MCl(2)(Him)(2)(H(2)O)(2)] (M = Co and Ni)

Ana María Atria; Piedad Cortés; María Teresa Garland; Ricardo Baggio

doi:10.1107/s0108270103018080

Two isomorphous imidazole (Him) complexes: [MCl(2)(Him)(2)(H(2)O)(2)] (M = Co and Ni)

Acta Crystallogr C. 2003 Oct;59(Pt 10):M396-8. doi: 10.1107/s0108270103018080. Epub 2003 Sep 16.

Authors

Ana María Atria¹, Piedad Cortés, María Teresa Garland, Ricardo Baggio

Affiliation

¹ Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 233, Santiago, Chile. aatria@ciq.uchile.cl

PMID: 14532653
DOI: 10.1107/s0108270103018080

Abstract

The structures of aquadichlorobis(1H-imidazole)cobalt(II), [CoCl(2)(Him)(2)(H(2)O)(2)] (Him is 1H-imidazole, C(3)H(4)N(2)), (I), and aquadichlorobis(1H-imidazole)nickel(II), [NiCl(2)(Him)(2)(H(2)O)(2)], (II), are isomorphous and consist of monomers with inversion symmetry. The three monodentate ligands (imidazole, chlorine and aqua), together with their symmetry equivalents, define almost perfect octahedra. Hydrogen-bonding interactions via the imidazole and aqua H atoms lead to a three-dimensional network.