Abstract
Two new complexes, trans-[CuL2(ClO4)2] (1) and cis-[CoL2(H2O)2](ClO4)2 · 2H2O (2) with 3-(p-methoxyphenyl)-4-(p-chlorophenyl)-5-(2-pyridyl)-1,2,4-triazole (L), have been synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, FT-IR, ESI-MS, TGA/DSC, powder XRD, and single crystal X-ray crystallography. Each L in the complexes is chelating bidentate via one N of pyridyl and one N of triazole. Both complexes have similar distorted octahedral [MN4O2] cores (M = Cu2+ and Co2+) with two in trans-positions in 1 but two H2O molecules cis in 2.
Acknowledgements
This work was funded by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (Nos. 20771059, 21171093, and 21136005) and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK2008371).