THE CRYSTAL AND MOLECULAR STRUCTURE OF CHLOROGLYCYL GLYCINATOCOPPER(II) MONOHYDRATE

Abstract
Crystals of chloroglycylglycinatocopper(II) monohydrate crystallized from acid solution are monoclinic, space group P21/c, with 8 formula units in a cell. The copper(II)-glycylglycine chelate has a dimeric structure, in which the peptide is bonded to two copper atoms - to one through the terminal nitrogen and the peptide oxygen and to the other through the terminal oxygen. The copper atom is five-coordinated and has a distorted square pyramidal coordination polyhedron.