A new series of silver com
plexes, [AgL], of the anionic forms of
potentially bidentate
N-2-
pyridyl sulfonamide ligands[
N-(3-methyl-2-
pyridyl)
-p-toluenenesulfonamide (HTs3me
py),
N-(3-methyl-2-
pyridyl)mesitylenesulfonamide (HMs3me
py),
N-(4-methyl-2-
pyridyl)
-p-toluenesulfonamide (HTs4me
py), and
N-(6-methyl-2-
pyridyl)mesitylenesulfonamide (HMs6me
py)]have been
pre
pared by an electrochemical
procedure. In addition, heterole
ptic com
plexes of com
position [AgLL'](L' = 1,10-
phenanthroline and 2,2'-bi
pyridine) were obtained when the coligand L' was added to the electrolytic
phase. The com
plexes were characterized by microanalysis, IR and
1H NMR s
pectrosco
py, and LSI masss
pectrometry. In the cases of the com
pounds [Ag(Ts3me
py)]
n (
1), [Ag
4(Ms3me
py)
4] (
2a), [Ag(Ms3me
py)]
n (
2b),[Ag
4(Ms6me
py)
4] (
3a), [Ag
2(Ms6me
py)
2]
n (
3b), [Ag
2(Ms3me
py)
2(
phen)
2] (
5), [Ag
2(Ms6me
py)
2phen] (
7), and [Ag
2(Ts4me
py)
2(bi
py)
2] (
8), characterization was also carried out by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Com
pounds
1 and
2b present a
polymer structure formed by an {AgN
2} digonal core. Com
pounds
2a and
3a are tetranuclear andalso have a distorted {AgN
2} digonal core. Com
pound
3b is based on binuclear distorted {AgN
2} digonal unitsjoined by an intermolecular sulfonyl oxygen atom to
produce a stairlike
polymer structure. The heterole
ptic com
plexes
5 and
8 are dimeric with a distorted {AgN
4} tetrahedral geometry, while com
pound
7 shows two different geometriesaround the metal, distorted {AgN
2} digonal and {AgN
4} tetrahedral. The su
pramolecular structures of all s
peciesare organized by
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