Molecular motion in pyridazinium/crown ether supramolecular cation salts of a nickel dithiolene complex

Dalton Trans. 2013 Feb 28;42(8):2930-9. doi: 10.1039/c2dt32542j.

Abstract

Supramolecular cations formed by monoprotonated pyridazinium cations and cis-anti-cis-dicyclohexano[18]-crown-6 (DCH[18]-crown-6) or dibenzo[18]-crown-6 (DB[18]-crown-6) were introduced into [Ni(dmit)2]− salts (where dmit2− = 2-thione-1,3-dithiole-4,5-dithiolate). X-ray crystal structure analysis of (pyridazinium+)(DCH[18]-crown-6)[Ni(dmit)2]− (1) revealed a chair-type conformation of the DCH[18]-crown-6 moiety. A V-shaped conformation of the DB[18]-crown-6 moiety was observed in (pyridazinium+)(DB[18]-crown-6)2[Ni(dmit)2]−(H2O)2 (2). Nitrogen atoms in the pyridazinium cations interacted with the oxygen atoms of the DCH[18]-crown-6 and DB[18]-crown-6 through N–H+O hydrogen bonds, forming 1:1 and 1:2 supramolecular structures, respectively. Sufficient space for molecular motions of the pyridazinium cations, namely flip-flop and in-plane rotations, exists in salt 1. Disorder in nitrogen atoms was observed by X-ray analysis, indicating dynamic motion of the pyridazinium cation, namely flip-flop motion and in-plane motion. A potential energy calculation further supported the possibility of dynamic motion of cations in the crystal. By contrast, the flip-flop motion of the pyridazinium group in salt 2 is restricted by the two nearest-neighbouring DB[18]-crown-6 molecules. Weak antiferromagnetic intermolecular interactions between the [Ni(dmit)2]− anions in the two-dimensional layers of salt 1 were observed, resulting in alternating antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain-type magnetic susceptibility. Quasi-one-dimensional intermolecular interactions between the [Ni(dmit)2]− anions were observed in salt 2, whose magnetic behaviour followed the Bonner–Fisher model.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Cations / chemistry
  • Crown Ethers / chemistry*
  • Hydrogen Bonding
  • Macromolecular Substances / chemical synthesis
  • Macromolecular Substances / chemistry
  • Models, Molecular
  • Molecular Structure
  • Nickel / chemistry*
  • Organometallic Compounds / chemical synthesis
  • Organometallic Compounds / chemistry*
  • Pyridazines / chemistry*
  • Salts / chemistry
  • Sulfhydryl Compounds / chemistry*

Substances

  • Cations
  • Crown Ethers
  • Macromolecular Substances
  • Organometallic Compounds
  • Pyridazines
  • Salts
  • Sulfhydryl Compounds
  • Nickel