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© 2016 The Royal Society of Chemistry.We report two tripodal frameworks, mono(2,2′-bipyrid-6-yl)bis(2-pyridyl)methanol (L1) and bis(2,2′-bipyrid-6-yl)mono(2-pyridyl)methanol (L2) which have one and two bipyridyl arms, respectively. Both ligands form complexes with the first row transition metals. Both ligands appear to overcome the steric strain involved in twisting the ligand to produce an octahedral complex and the solid state structures in general show more octahedral character than complexes of the related ligand, tris(2,2′-bipyrid-6-yl)methanol (L3). Continuous Shape Mapping (CShM) calculations based on crystallographic data reveal that L1 is incapable of enforcing a trigonal prismatic (TP) co-ordination geometry in the solid state, surprisingly even upon co-ordination to metals with no stereochemical preference such as cadmium (S(TP) = 7.15 and S(Oh) = 3.95). However, ligand L2 clearly maintains an ability to enforce a trigonal prismatic conformation which is demonstrated in the crystal structures of the MnII and CdII complexes (S(TP) = 0.75 and 1.09, respectively). While L3 maintains near-TP configurations in the presence of metal ions with strong octahedral preferences, L2 distorts towards predominantly octahedral co-ordination geometries, increasing in the order CoII < NiII < FeII and no trigonal prismatic structures.
Author(s): Knight JC, Amoroso AJ, Edwards PG, Singh N, Ward BD
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Dalton Transactions
Year: 2016
Volume: 45
Issue: 26
Pages: 10630-10642
Print publication date: 14/07/2016
Online publication date: 31/05/2016
Acceptance date: 28/05/2016
Date deposited: 30/08/2018
ISSN (print): 1477-9226
ISSN (electronic): 1477-9234
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
URL: https://doi.org/10.1039/c6dt01165a
DOI: 10.1039/c6dt01165a
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