Crystallographic and Spectroscopic Evidence of O-Bonding in 3d-MetaI Dicyanomethanidonitrite Complexes

Abstract

Abstract The coordination of the dicyanomethanidonitrite group through the nitroso oxygen atom in the tetrakis(pyridine) complexes [M{ONC(CN)2}2(py)4], M = Ni, Co, Cu, and in the bis(pyridine) complex [Cu{ONC(CN)2}2(py)2] was proved by X-ray crystallography of the Ni11 complex and re-evaluated infrared spectra. The Ni11 and Co11 complexes exhibit almost octahedral structures composed of four pyridine nitrogen atoms and two oxygen atoms of dicyanomethanidonitrite ions. Both copper(II) complexes display a considerable axial distortion of the pseudooctahedral arrangement. In the bis(pyridine) Cu11 complex the ONC(CN)2 groups are involved in the bridging function by use of the oxygen and nitrile nitrogen atoms.