Synthesis, spectroscopic studies and structures of square-planar nickel(II) and copper(II) complexes derived from 2-{(Z)-[furan-2-ylmethyl]imino]methyl}-6-methoxyphenol.

Two new nickel(II) [Ni(L)(2)] and copper(II) [Cu(L)(2)] complexes have been synthesized with bidentate NO donor Schiff base ligand (2-{(Z)-[furan-2-ylmethyl]imino]methyl}-6-methoxyphenol) (HL) and both complexes Ni(L)(2) and Cu(L)(2) have been characterized by elemental analyses, IR, UV-vis, (1)H, (13)C NMR, mass spectroscopy and room temperature magnetic susceptibility measurement. The tautomeric equilibria (phenol-imine, O-H...N and keto-amine, O...H-N forms) have been systemetically studied by using UV-vis absorption spectra for the ligand HL. The UV-vis spectra of this ligand HL were recorded and commented in polar, non-polar, acidic and basic media. The crystal structures of these complexes have also been determined by using X-ray crystallographic techniques. The complexes Ni(L)(2) and Cu(L)(2) crystallize in the monoclinic space group P2(1)/n and P2(1)/c with unit cell parameters: a=10.4552(3)A and 12.1667(4)A, b=8.0121(3)A and 10.4792(3)A, c=13.9625(4)A and 129.6616(3)A, V=1155.22(6)A(3) and 1155.22(6)A(3), D(x)=1.493 and 1.476 g cm(-3) and Z=2 and 2, respectively. The crystal structures were solved by direct methods and refined by full-matrix least squares to a find R=0.0377 and 0.0336 of for 2340 and 2402 observed reflections, respectively.