Two ZnIImononuclear coordination compounds with pyridinedicarboxylate and auxiliaryN-(pyridin-4-ylmethylidene)hydroxylamine ligands

Abstract

Two new mononuclear coordination compounds, bis{4-[(hydroxyimino)methyl]pyridinium} diaquabis(pyridine-2,5-dicarboxylato-κ2N,O2)zincate(II), (C6H7N2O)2[Zn(C7H3NO4)2(H2O)2], (1), and (pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylato-κ3O2,N,O6)bis[N-(pyridin-4-ylmethylidene-κN)hydroxylamine]zinc(II), [Zn(C7H3NO4)(C6H6N2O)2], (2), have been synthesized and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffractometry. The centrosymmetric ZnIIcation in (1) is octahedrally coordinated by two chelating pyridine-2,5-dicarboxylate ligands and by two water molecules in a distorted octahedral geometry. In (2), the ZnIIcation is coordinated by a tridentate pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylate dianion and by twoN-(pyridin-4-ylmethylidene)hydroxylamine molecules in a distortedC2-symmetric trigonal bipyramidal coordination geometry.