Crystal structure of two polymorphs of molybdenyl salicylidene-2-furfuriliminate (HL1) [MoO2(L1)2]

• Published in: Russian journal of inorganic chemistry Vol. 62; no. 7; pp. 900 - 904
• Main Authors: Sergienko, V. S., Abramenko, V. L., Gorbunova, Yu. E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Moscow Pleiades Publishing 01-07-2017; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Atomic structure; Chemistry; Chemistry and Materials Science; Coordination Compounds; Crystal structure; Diffraction; Distortion; Inorganic Chemistry; Ligands; Nitrogen atoms; Oxygen atoms; X-ray diffraction; X-rays
• ISSN: 0036-0236; 1531-8613
• DOI: 10.1134/S0036023617070208

The crystal structures of two polymorphs of molybdenyl salicylidene-2-furfuryliminate [MoO
2
(L
1
)
2
] have been solved by X-ray diffraction. Both complexes crystallize in centrosymmetric and non-centrosymmetric space groups (
P
2
1
/
c
and
Р
2
1
, respectively) of monoclinic system and have similar structures and close geometric parameters. The Мо atoms have a distorted octahedral coordination to two terminal oxo ligands in
cis
-positions to each other and two pairs of the oxygen atoms (
cis
- to О(oxo)) and the nitrogen atoms (
trans
- to О(oxo)) of two bidentate chelate ligands (L
1
)
–
.