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Schiff-Base Podates – X-ray, NMR and Ab Initio Molecular-Orbital Studies of the Cadmium(II) Complexes of Linear and Three-Armed Podands in Solution and Solid State

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Cadmium(II) complexes of two Schiff bases, 1,3-di(pyridine-2-carboxaldimino)propane (C15H16N4, L1)[1] and tris[4-(2′-pyridyl)-3-aza-3-butenyl]amine (C24H27N7, L2)[2] are described. An efficient route utilising molecular sieves for the synthesis of Schiff bases is presented. The ligands L1 and L2 can be described as linear and three-armed podands, respectively, L1 being conformationally flexible and L2 preorganised. Cadmium perchlorate in methanol with L1 yields a crystalline complex [Cd(L1)2](ClO4)2 (1), the structure of which was determined by X-ray structure analysis. The complex 1 has an unusual nonsymmetrical 8-coordinated helical structure and crystallizes in an acentric space group (Cc, no. 9) as a pure enantiomer due to spontaneous resolution. Solution studies of 1 in CHCl3/DMSO (10:1) and pure DMSO were performed using 1H-, 13C-, 113Cd-NMR and 1H,15N z-GS HMBC spectroscopy and they suggest a reorientation of 1 into the more symmetrical 4-coordinate complex due to the flexible nature of L1. The preorganised, potentially tetra-, hexa- or heptadentate, three-armed podand L2 and its in situ complexation with the Cd2+ cation were investigated by 1H-, 13C-, 113Cd-NMR and 1H,15N z-GS HMBC spectroscopy. The results support the formation of a highly symmetrical helical 6-coordinate podate [CdL2](NO3)2 (2). The structure of 2 has also been verified by ab initio HF-MO calculations using a standard 3-21G* basis set (Lan2DZ for Cd).