Synthesis and Structural Characterization of Cd(II) Complexes with 2-Acetylpyridine-aminoguanidine - a Novel Coordination Mode

The structures of the first two complexes with bidentate coordination of aminoguanidine Schiff base, i.e., 2-acetylpyridine-aminoguanidine (L), are reported. The complex of the formula [Cd2Cl6(HL)2] (1) was obtained in the reaction of warm aqueous solutions of chloride salts of Cd(II), Zn(II) and the ligand, while the reaction of cadmium bromide and the ligand in the presence of deprotonating agent as well as ammonium thiocyanate resulted in the formation of the complex in which Schiff base has both the role of the ligand and the counterion, viz., [HL][Cd(HL)(NCS)2XY]?H2O (2), where X is Cl- or Br-, and Y Br- or SCN-. The complexes were characterized by IR spectroscopy, elemental analysis, conductometric measurements and single crystal X-ray diffraction. The unusual bidentate coordination of the Schiff base lead to significant changes in the geometry of this molecule (from almost planar in free form and as a tridentate ligand to twisted as a bidentate ligand). Besides, in complex 1 relatively rare bridging coordination of Cl- in octahedral Cd(II) is found, while the crystal structure of complex 2 exhibits substitutional disorder, and contains four different anions: [Cd(HL)(NCS)2Br(SCN)]- (ca. 61 %), [Cd(HL)(NCS)2Cl(SCN)]- (ca. 35 %), [Cd(HL)(NCS)2Br2]- (ca. 3 %) and [Cd(HL)(NCS)2ClBr]- (ca. 1 %).