Four-, five- and six-coordinated Zn^II complexes of OH-containing ligands: syntheses, structure and reactivity

Abstract

Four-, five- and six-coordinated complexes of ZnII with OH-rich molecules possessing an ONO binding core were synthesized, characterized and their structures were established by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The corresponding metal ion geometries were found to be distorted tetrahedral, square pyramidal and octahedral, respectively. The complexes exhibit interesting lattice structures such as layered and corrugated sheets owing to the presence of a number of weak intermolecular interactions. The five-coordinated, water-bound ZnII complex was studied because of its putative hydrolysis property towards p-nitrophenyl acetate.