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Crystal Structures and Polymorphism of Nickel and Copper Coordination Polymers with Pyridine Ligands

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Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie, 640 (15): 3190--3196 (December 2014)
DOI: 10.1002/zaac.201400505

Abstract

The crystal structures of a series of pyridine coordination polymers MIICl2(C5H5N)xn (M = Ni, Cu), prepared via thermal decomposition are reported. NiCl2(C5H5N)4 (1) decomposes stepwise via NiCl2(C5H5N)2n (2), NiCl2(C5H5N)n (3), and NiCl2(C5H5N)2/3n (4), to NiCl2 with increasing temperature. The thermal decomposition of CuCl2(C5H5N)2n (5), progresses via two polymorphs of CuCl2(C5H5N)n (6a and 6b), and CuCl2(C5H5N)2/3n (7), to CuCl2. The compounds 3, 4, and 7 were prepared as pure phases. All crystal structures were determined by X-ray powder diffraction. Notably, the crystal structures of the polymorphs 6a and 6b were determined from powder diffraction data of a mixture of both phases. Crystal structures of MIICl2(C5H5N)xn with the same x, but different metal atoms (Ni, Cu) are homeotypic, compounds 4 and 7 are isotypic. Compounds with x = 1 (3, 6a, 6b) are composed of polymeric octahedra double chains 1/inf. MCl3/3Cl2/2(C5H5N) and in case of x = 2/3 (4, 7) of triple chains. The Jahn-Teller distortion in the copper compounds was observable with the pair distribution function (PDF) analysis.

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