Journal article

Publication year: 2010

Pages: 126-131

Journal: Journal of Inorganic and General Chemistry

Volume number: 636

Issue number: 1

ISSN: 0044-2313

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1002/zaac.200900382

Publisher: Wiley

Abstract: 
The reaction of europium metal with a melt of the amine 1H-1,2,3-benzotriazole yields single crystalline yellow (1)(infinity)[Eu(Btz)(2)(BtzH)(2)], Btz = 1,23-benzotriazolate anion, C6H4N3-, BtzH = 1H-1,2,3-benzotriazole, C6H5N3, and H-2 gas. No additional solvent was used. The new compound adopts a strand-like structure and exhibits it square anti-prismatic coordination of europium by nitrogen atoms. As europium is divalent, this is the first example of a divalent rare earth benzotrizolate. Both benzotriazolate and benzotriazole ligands function as mu-eta(1):eta(1) linkers between different europium atoms, their third nitrogen atom being involved in intra-strand hydrogen bridges. Although the of each strand call be refined in a smaller subcell, the arrangement of strands to one another necessitates a refinement in a larger supercell.

Harvard Citation style: Rybak, J. and Müller-Buschbaum, K. (2010) The Benzotriazolate Coordination Polymer (1)(infinity)[Eu(Btz)(2)(BtzH)(2)], Containing Divalent Europium, Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie = Journal of Inorganic and General Chemistry, 636(1), pp. 126-131. https://doi.org/10.1002/zaac.200900382

APA Citation style: Rybak, J., & Müller-Buschbaum, K. (2010). The Benzotriazolate Coordination Polymer (1)(infinity)[Eu(Btz)(2)(BtzH)(2)], Containing Divalent Europium. Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie = Journal of Inorganic and General Chemistry. 636(1), 126-131. https://doi.org/10.1002/zaac.200900382