Li Hua-Qiong, Xian Hui-Duo, Liu Jian-Feng, Zhao Guo-Liang
Zhejiang Key Laboratory for Reactive Chemistry on Solid Surfaces, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang 321004, People's Republic of China, and, College of Chemistry and Life Science, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China.
Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online. 2008 Oct 31;64(Pt 11):m1482-3. doi: 10.1107/S1600536808033539.
The Schiff base 6-meth-oxy-2-[(4-methyl-phen-yl)imino-meth-yl]-phenol (HL) forms a neutral complex with cadmium(II) nitrate, [Cd(NO(3))(2)(C(15)H(15)NO(2))(2)], in which the four O atoms of the two independent ligands are coordinated to the metal center and the protonated imine N atoms are involved in a hydrogen bond with the phenoxide group. Intra-molecular N-H⋯O hydrogen-bonding inter-actions stabilize the structure. Each organic ligand assumes a zwitterionic form, chelating to the metal atom through the two O atoms, while the two nitrate groups also exhibit chelating behavior, leading to a distorted octahedral coordination of the Cd atom.