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Article
Publication Date
2017
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https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.7b01087
Abstract
The impact of substituting Hg(II) for Zn(II) in a thiolate-bridged trinuclear cluster with parallels to a metallothionein metal cluster was investigated. A new solvomorph of [Zn(ZnL)2](ClO4)2 (1) (L = N-(2-pyridylmethyl)-N-(2-(ethylthiolato)-amine) and five solvomorphs of a new compound [Hg(ZnL)2](ClO4)2 (2) were characterized by single-crystal X-ray crystallography. The interplay of hydrogen bonding and aromatic-packing interactions in producing lamellar, 2D lamellar, and columnar arrangements of complex cations in the crystalline state is discussed. Both variable temperature proton nuclear magnetic resonance and electrospray ion-mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) suggest that the complex ions of 1 and 2 are the predominant solution species at moderate concentrations. ESI-MS was also used to monitor differences in metal ion redistribution as 1 was titrated with Hg(ClO4)2 and [HgL(ClO4)]. These studies document the facile replacement of Zn(II) by Hg(II) with the preservation of the overall structure in thiolate-rich clusters.
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ACS Omega, v. 2, issue 10, p. 6391-6404
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Scholar Commons Citation
Hallinger, Madeline R.; Gerhard, Alison C.; Ritz, Mikhaila D.; Sacks, Joshua S.; Poutsma, John C.; Pike, Robert D.; Wojtas, Lukasz; and Bebout, Deborah C., "Metal Substitution and Solvomorphism in Alkylthiolate-Bridged Zn3 and HgZn,2 Metal Clusters" (2017). Chemistry Faculty Publications. 108.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/chm_facpub/108
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