Structural and X-ray powder diffraction studies of nano-structured lead(II) coordination polymer with η2 Pb•••C interactions

A new nano-sized Pb(II) one-dimensional coordination polymer with eta(2) Pb-C interactions, [Pb-2 (mu(3)-ba)(2)(mu(2)-ba)(2)](n) (1) [ba = benzylacetylacetonate] has been synthesized and characterized by SEM, X-ray powder diffraction, IR spectroscopy and elemental analyses. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction shows the coordination number of Pb(II) ions is seven and the lead atoms have hemidirected coordination sphere containing involving Pb center dot center dot center dot C interactions, C2O7Pb. PbO nanoparticles were obtained by calcinations of the nano-sized compound 1 at 600 degrees C. (C) 2009 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.