- Received: November, 23, 2017
- Revised: January, 29, 2018
- Accepted for publication: January, 29, 2018
- DOI 10.26902/JSC_id38778
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Sieroń L.
, Czylkowska A., Raducka A.
Institute of General and Ecological Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland
A novel neodymium(III) chloride complex with 2,4'-bipyridine (bpy), (bpyH)[Nd(H2O)9]Cl4·bpy·H2O, has been synthesized, crystallized and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and thermal analysis. The crystal is nine-coordinate homoleptic mononuclear aqua-complex and crystallizes in the triclinic P-1 space group with two formula units in the unit cell related by a pseudo-translation of b/2. In the crystal structure, each [Nd(H2O)9]3+ ion is
hydrogen-bonded in the same way to one 2,4'-bipyridine molecule, one
2,4-bipyridinium cation, and chloride anions. Lattice water molecules form
hydrogen-bonds which further stabilize the framework. The thermal
properties of compound in the solid state were studied using TG-DTG techniques under dynamic flowing air atmosphere.
Keywords: 2,4'-bipyridine, neodymium aqua complex, 9-coordinate geometry, X-ray structure analysis, translational pseudosymmetry, thermal decomposition