TRANSITION METAL CHEMISTRY, vol.32, no.8, pp.1096-1100, 2007 (SCI-Expanded)
This article describes the synthesis of a new (2E,3E,6R,9E,11E)-6-isopropenyl-3,6,10-trimethyl-5,8-dioxa-4,9-diazadodeca-3,9-diene-2,11-dione dioxime (H(2)hmdm), and its mono-, homo, and heterodinuclear copper(II)/nickel(II) complexes. Elemental analyses, stoichiometric and spectroscopic data of the metal complexes indicated that the metal ions are coordinated to the oxime and imine nitrogen atoms (C=N). The Cu(H(2)hmdm), molecule coordinates to the second copper(II) ion through the oximate oxygens to afford a binuclear structure doubly bridged by the oximate groups in the cis arrangement. In the dinuclear complexes, in which the first Cu-II ion was complexed with nitrogen atoms of the oxime and imine groups, the second Cu-II ion is ligated with the 1,10-phenanthroline nitrogen atoms. Ligand and its mononuclear copper(II), homo and heterodinuclear copper(II)-nickel(II) complexes of (H(2)hmdm) were characterized by elemental analyses, magnetic moments, H-1-n.m.r. and C-13-n.m.r., i.r., and mass spectral studies. The data support the proposed structure of H(2)hmdm and its complexes.