The reaction of phenylmercury(II) acetate and cadmium(II) acetate with a refluxed solution of diacetylmonoxime and morpholine
N-thiohydrazide formed a novel phenylmercury(II) complex, [PhHg(Hdammthiol)] (
1) and a cadmium(II) complex, [Cd(Hdammthiol)
2] (
2), respectively (where H
2dammthiol is the thiol form of diacetylmonoximemorpholine
N-thiohydrazone (Hdammth) formed by the condensation of diacetylmonoxime and morpholine
N-thiohydrazide in the presence of phenylmercury(II) and cadmium(II) ions). The complexes were characterised by elemental analyses and spectral data (electronic, infrared and
1H NMR) and also by X-ray crystal structure analysis. The X-ray crystallography shows that the phenylmercury(II) complex attained a tricoordinated distorted T-shaped structure, while the cadmium(II) complex attained a trapezoidal bipyramidal geometry. The phenylmercury(II) complex forms a two-dimensional sheet via C–H
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O and O–H
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N hydrogen bonding and also forms a two-dimensional supramolecular dimer, having C–H
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π synthons. Intermolecular C–H
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O and O–H
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O hydrogen bonding of the cadmium(II) complex forms a two-dimensional supramolecular sheet along the
bc plane and posses an impressively short intermolecular C(sp
3)
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O(sp
3) contact.