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Dalton Trans. 2004 Aug 07;(15):2321-8. doi: 10.1039/B406329P. Epub 2004 Jun 30.

Reaction behaviour of dinuclear copper(I) complexes with m-xylyl-based ligands towards dioxygen.

Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)

Simon P Foxon, Diana Utz, Jorg Astner, Siegfried Schindler, Florian Thaler, Frank W Heinemann, Gunter Liehr, Jhumpa Mukherjee, V Balamurugan, Debalina Ghosh, Rabindranath Mukherjee

Affiliations

  1. Institut fur Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Justus-Liebig-Universitat Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 58, 35392 Giessen, Germany.

PMID: 15278125 DOI: 10.1039/B406329P

Abstract

Intramolecular ligand hydroxylation was observed during the reactions of dioxygen with the dicopper(I) complexes of the ligands L(1)(L(1)=alpha,alpha'-bis[(2-pyridylethyl)amino]-m-xylene) and L(3)(L(3)=alpha, alpha'-bis[N-(2-pyridylethyl)-N-(2-pyridylmethyl)amino]-m-xylene). The dinuclear copper(I) complex [Cu(2)L(3)](ClO(4))(2) and the dicopper(II) complex [Cu(2)(L(1)-O)(OH)(ClO(4))]ClO(4) were characterized by single-crystal X-ray structure analysis. Furthermore, phenolate-bridged complexes were synthesized with the ligand L(2)-OH (structurally characterized [Cu(2)(L(2)-O)Cl(3)] with L(2)=alpha, alpha'-bis[N-methyl-N-(2-pyridylethyl)amino]-m-xylene; synthesized from the reaction between [Cu(2)(L(2)-O)(OH)](ClO(4))(2) and Cl(-)) and Me-L(3)-OH: [Cu(2)(Me-L(3)-O)(mu-X)](ClO(4))(2)xnH(2)O (Me-L(3)-OH = 2,6-bis[N-(2-pyridylethyl)-N-(2-pyridylmethyl)amino]-4-methylphenol and X = C(3)H(3)N(2)(-)(prz), MeCO(2)(-) and N(3)(-)). The magnetochemical characteristics of compounds were determined by temperature-dependent magnetic studies, revealing their antiferromagnetic behaviour [-2J(in cm(-1)) values: -92, -86 and -88; -374].

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