The crystal structures of [Cu(phen)2(O2CMe)]X (phen = 1,10-phenanthroline) complexes: pseudo cis-distorted octahedral structures and fluxional copper(II) stereochemistries
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 3,p. 196-198
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39820000196
Abstract
The X-ray crystal structures of four cation-distortion isomers of the [Cu(Phen)2(O2CMe)]+(phen = 1,10-phenanthroline) cation are reported and shown to contain the cis-octahedral CuN4O2 chromophore; X-ray and e.s.r. data are consistent with a fluxional CuN4O2 structure, which is best described as a psuedo cis-distorted octahedral copper(II) stereochemistry in three of the complexes, and consequently these structural variations can be related to the dynamic pseudo-Jahn-Teller effect.Keywords
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