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NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
Volume 43, Issue 2, Pages 979-991Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c8nj03600d
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- UGC-SAP-DRS II, New Delhi (India)
- UGC-Emeritus Fellowship by UGC, New Delhi, India
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Two new related families of formula (GunH)(3)[Ln(tda)(3)] I and (AgunH)(3)[Ln(oda)(3)]H2O II (Ln = La, Ce, Pr, Nd & Sm, H(2)tda = thiodiacetic acid, H(2)oda = oxydiacetic acid, GunH = guanidinium, AgunH = aminoguanidinium) have been successfully synthesized using a controlled process under oil-bath conditions (at 120 degrees C for a day) and characterized by various physico-chemical techniques. The structures have been solved for praseodymium and neodymium in I and for lanthanum in II, respectively, from X-ray diffraction data of single crystals. The isostructural complexes of (GunH)(3)[Pr(tda)(3)] and (GunH)(3)[Nd(tda)(3)] crystallize in the hexagonal crystal system with space group P62c, while (AgunH)(3)[La(oda)(3)]H2O has a triclinic symmetry with the P1 space group. Generally, coordination number 6 (octahedral) and 4 (tetrahedral) structures are very rare except when bulky ligands are present. Typically, the thiodiacetate (O, S, O) and oxydiacetate (O, O, O) anions act as tridentate ligands to create monomeric structures. Surprisingly, for the first time, the thiodiacetate anion takes a somewhat rare bi-dentate (O, O) mode, leading to trigonal prismatic geometry around the metal ion even for a flexible ligand, whereas the oxydiacetate dianion (oda(2-)) acquires the usual nine coordinated distorted monocapped square anti-prismatic (MSAP) geometry. The simultaneous TG-DTA of type I complexes could not be recorded due to spurting, while the type II compounds show smooth and similar thermal behaviour on heating. The photo-luminescent properties of I and II have also been investigated at room temperature, which indicate that the emissions come from intra-ligand -* transitions.
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