title: Vibrational studies of the solid imidazole and pyridine adducts of metal(II) saccharinates. III. Zn(II) and Hg(II) imidazole saccharinates.
abstract: Adducts of bis(o-sulfobenzimidato)zinc(II) and mercury(II) with imidazole are synthesized for the first time and their mid-infrared vibrational spectra at ambient conditions and at 77 K are coupled with the earlier spectra-structural inferences to predict aspects of the respective solid-state structures. The spectrum of the H2O-matrix isolated OD fundamentals in the hydrated zinc compound is also investigated. The structure of the latter adduct contrasts the octahedral isostructural tetrad of mixed imidazole-saccharinates [M(H2O)2(C3H4N2)4](C7H4NO3S)2 [M = Mn(II), Fe(II), Co(II) and Ni(II)] in that it bears only a single crystallographic type of hydrogen bonded C2v water molecules and at least two structurally different o-sulfobenzimidate ligands, some of them likely utilized in a bridging fashion. The rotation and the partial ionic character of a pair of N-monodentate o-sulfobenzimidato ligands placed about 212-214 pm from the metal accommodates another pair of imidazole molecules in the tetrahedral arrangement around the metal in the neutral unhydrous mercury complex.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Sv. Kiril i Metodij University, Skopje, Macedonia. spance@iunona.pmf.ukim.edu.mk
authors.forename: Pance
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Naumov
authors.forename: Gligor
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Jovanovski
authors.forename: Aneta
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Todorovska
mesh_terms: D007093:Imidazoles / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry*; D017669:Mercury Compounds / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry*; D011725:Pyridines / Q000737:chemistry*; D017550:Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman; D017967:Zinc Compounds / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D007093:Imidazoles; D017669:Mercury Compounds; D011725:Pyridines; D017967:Zinc Compounds