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Reaction of 6-methyl-2-pyridone (Hmhp) with Na or K metal, or with Rb or Cs 2-ethylhexoxide, in an appropriate single or mixed solvent, yields a series of solvated polymeric complexes with the empirical formulae M(mhp)(H2O)(2) [(1), M = Na; (2), M = K], M(mhp)(H2O) [(3), M = Rb; (4), M = Cs] and Cs(mhp)(ROH) [(5), R = Me; (6), R = Et]. All of the products have been crystallographically characterized and show sheet polymeric structures, except for a double-chain structure for (2). In all of the structures, mhp(-) and solvent molecules function as bridging ligands; two metal ions are bridged (mu(2)) by each solvent molecule in (1), (5) and (6), while (2) contains both mu(2) and mu(3) triple bridges, and (3) and (4) display highly unusual mu(4) quadruple bridging of metal ions by water molecules. The pyridonate O atom bridges two or three metal ions in each case. Nitrogen is also involved in coordination to the heavier metals; it bonds to a single ion in (3) and (4), but has an almost unprecedented bridging role in (5) and (6). As a result of the extensive bridging by ligands, coordination numbers between 6 and 8 are achieved for the metal ions. In each structure, all solvent OH groups form hydrogen bonds to pyridonate O and, in some cases, N atoms. With one exception, these are the first reported pyridonate complexes of the alkali metals Na-Cs that do not also include transition metals.
Author(s): Clegg W, Tooke DM
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science
Year: 2013
Volume: 69
Pages: 603-612
Print publication date: 01/12/2013
ISSN (print): 0108-7681
ISSN (electronic): 1600-5740
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S2052519213025980
DOI: 10.1107/S2052519213025980
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