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RSC ADVANCES
Volume 10, Issue 72, Pages 44481-44493Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d0ra08731a
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- Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia [451-03-68/2020-14/200122]
- PL-Grid infrastructure
- Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts under strategic projects programme [01-2019-F65]
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia
- DAAD
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A series of mononuclear gold(iii) complexes of the general formula [AuCl3(diazanaphthalene)], where diazanaphthalene is quinazoline (qz, 1), phthalazine (phtz, 2), 1,5-naphthyridine (1,5-naph, 3), 1,6-naphthyridine (1,6-naph, 4) or 1,8-naphthyridine (1,8-naph, 5), were prepared and fully characterized. The complexes 1-5 consist of discrete monomeric species with the Au(iii) cation in a square planar coordination geometry surrounded by three chloride anions and one diazanaphthalene ligand. Crystallographic studies indicate the presence of an extended 4 + 1 or 4 + 2 geometry around the square planar [AuCl3(diazanaphthalene)] center due to AuMIDLINE HORIZONTAL ELLIPSISCl and AuMIDLINE HORIZONTAL ELLIPSISN interactions. The crystal structures of these complexes are controlled by a variety of intermolecular interactions that utilize the amphiphilic properties of the coordinated chloride anions and involve C-H groups, pi-electrons, and an uncoordinated nitrogen atom of the diazanaphthalene ligand. The usual offset pi-stacking between the N-heteroaromatic ligands appears to be completely hindered between the 1,5-naph fragments and significantly weakened between the 1,6-naph and 1,8-naph in their respective complexes 3, 4 and 5, for which the average molecular polarizability (alpha) values are the lowest in the series. It is remarkable that the [AuCl3(benzodiazine)] complexes 1 and 2 form centrosymmetric crystals, but the [AuCl3(naphthyridine)] complexes 3-5 assemble into non-centrosymmetric aggregates, making them potential alternatives to the previously studied systems for application in various fields by taking advantage of their polarity.
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