[(6-Methyl-2-pyridylmeth-yl)(2-pyridylmeth-yl)amine][(2-pyridylmeth-yl)amine]copper(II) bis-(perchlorate)

Ray J Butcher; Yohannes T Tesema; Teshome B Yisgedu; Yilma Gultneh

doi:10.1107/S1600536807062952

[(6-Methyl-2-pyridylmeth-yl)(2-pyridylmeth-yl)amine][(2-pyridylmeth-yl)amine]copper(II) bis-(perchlorate)

Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online. 2007 Dec 6;64(Pt 1):m74-5. doi: 10.1107/S1600536807062952.

Authors

Ray J Butcher¹, Yohannes T Tesema, Teshome B Yisgedu, Yilma Gultneh

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Howard University, 525 College Street NW, Washington, DC 20059, USA.

Abstract

The title compound, [Cu(C(6)H(8)N(2))(C(13)H(15)N(3))](ClO(4))(2), is a mixed ligand complex with the Cu(II) atom coordinated by (6-methyl-2-pyridylmeth-yl)(2-pyridylmeth-yl)amine, acting as a tridentate ligand, and 2-(2-amino-meth-yl)pyridine, as a bidentate ligand, leading to an N(5) square-pyramidal geometry. The amine H atoms are involved in hydrogen bonding to the perchlorate O atoms and there are extensive but weak inter-molecular C-H⋯O inter-actions in the crystal structure. The perchlorate ions are each disordered over two positions, with site occupancies of 0.601 (8):0.399 (8) and 0.659 (11):0.341 (11).