Bebout, Deborah C. Bush, James F. Crahan, Kathleen K. Kastner, Margaret E. Parrish, Damon A. Correlation of a Solution-State Conformational Change between Mercuric Chloride Complexes of Tris[(2-(6-methylpyridyl))methyl]amine with X-ray Crystallographic Structures Solution-state NMR and X-ray crystallography were used to investigate the complexation of HgCl<sub>2</sub> by the potentially tetradentate ligand tris[(6-methyl-2-pyridyl)methyl]amine (TLA) in acetonitrile. A change in the ligand conformation as a function of the metal-to-ligand ratio could be indirectly monitored through large changes in <sup>3</sup><i>J</i>(<sup>1</sup>H<sup>199</sup>Hg) to the methylene protons at −40 °C. The solution-state NMR were correlated with two solid-state structures. The five-coordinate complex [Hg(TLA)Cl<sub>2</sub>] (<b>1</b>) crystallizes in the triclinic space group <i>P</i>1̄ with <i>a</i> = 8.663(3) Å, <i>b</i> = 11.539(4) Å, <i>c</i> = 13.739(3) Å, α = 80.81(2)°, β = 75.84(2)°, γ = 80.97(3)°, and <i>Z</i> = 2. The Hg−N<sub>amine</sub> distance of 2.505(7) Å for the tridentate ligand is the same as the average Hg−N<sub>lutidyl</sub> distance of 2.50(3) Å for the two bound lutidyl nitrogens. [Hg(TLA)Cl]<sub>2</sub>(Hg<sub>2</sub>Cl<sub>6</sub>) (<b>2</b>) also crystallizes in <i>P</i>1̄ with <i>a</i> = 10.606(2) Å, <i>b</i> = 15.104(3) Å, <i>c</i> = 17.785(4) Å, α = 67.46(3)°, β = 83.52(3)°, γ = 80.29(3)°, and <i>Z</i> = 2. The ligand is tetradentate in the two crystallographically unique cations which are arranged in a dimer-like orientation. The average Hg−Cl distance is 2.37 (1) Å, and the average interionic Hg−Cl distance is 3.51(1) Å. The Hg− N<sub>lutidyl</sub> distances are of two types:  two have an average distance of 2.36(3) Å, nearly the same as the Hg−N<sub>amine</sub> distance of 2.35(2) Å. The remaining four N<sub>lutidyl</sub> distances have an average distance of 2.56(5) Å. lutidyl nitrogens;N lutidyl distances;HgCl 2;methylene protons;Å.;Hg 2 Cl 6;TLA;3 J;NMR;Mercuric Chloride Complexes;tridentate ligand;1 H 199 Hg;ligand conformation 1998-08-20
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