Preparations, IR spectra and crystal structures of cyano-bridged bimetallic complexes of zinc(II) and cadmium(II) with tetracyanopalladate(II)

Abstract

The novel heteronuclear compounds [Zn(hydet-en)₂Pd(CN)₄] (1) and [Cd(hydet-en)₂Pd(CN)₄] (2) {hydet-en: N-(2-hydroxyethyl-ethylenediamine)} have been synthesized and characterized by elemental analyses and IR spectra. The crystal structures of 1 and 2 have been determined by X-ray diffraction. Structural analysis shows that both compounds have shown a polymeric chain, in which the Zn(II)/Pd(II) and Cd(II)/Pd(II) centres are linked by two CN groups. Both zinc and cadmium atoms are six coordinate with two trans cyanide–nitrogen and four hydet-en N atoms in a distorted octahedron arrangement; the palladium atoms in 1 and 2 are four coordinate with four cyanide-C atoms in a square planar arrangement. The chains in both compounds are connected through weak interchain hydrogen bonds, N–H ··· O, N–H ··· N and O–H ··· N, thereby forming a three-dimensional network.

Keywords:

• Heteronuclear Pd complexes
• Polymeric chains
• Cyano-bridged complexes
• Crystal structures