metal-organic compounds
The α polymorph of racemic tris(2,4-pentanedionato-κ2O,O′)vanadium(III), redetermined at 120 K
aSchool of Chemistry, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu 620 024, India, bDepartment of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen, Meston Walk, Old Aberdeen AB24 3UE, Scotland, and cSchool of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, Fife KY16 9ST, Scotland
*Correspondence e-mail: cg@st-andrews.ac.uk
In the α polymorph of the title compound, [V(C5H7O2)3], the molecules lie in general positions with no crystallographically imposed symmetry, but with approximate D3 (32) molecular symmetry.
Comment
The title compound, (I) (Fig. 1), crystallizes in two structurally characterized polymorphs, an orthorhombic form in Pbca, denoted α, and a monoclinic form in P21/n, denoted β (Morosin & Montgomery, 1969). The orthorhombic α form has been structurally characterized only at ambient temperature (Morosin & Montgomery, 1969; Filgueiras et al., 2001), but neither report mentioned the molecular stereochemistry. We have now taken the opportunity to redetermine the structure of this phase using diffraction data collected at 120 K: the unit-cell dimensions and confirm that the same phase is present at 120 K as at ambient temperature.
In the α polymorph of compound (I) the molecules lie in general positions in Pbca, but the local molecular symmetry is very close to the ideal D3 (32) expected for isolated molecules. Although the compound is racemic, the molecules are chiral, but the centrosymmetric accommodates equal numbers of the Λ and Δ enantiomorphs: the selected reference molecule (Fig. 1) has Λ configuration. The corresponding bond distances within the three independent ligands show some modest variation, as exemplified by the V—O and O—C distances (Table 1); likewise the ligand bite angles O—V—O within the rings show minor variation. While two of the three rings are effectively planar, that including atoms O11 and O13 shows a minor puckering, and this ring is best described as forming a boat conformer with a total puckering amplitude of 0.199 (2) Å, with the maximum displacement from the mean ring plane found for the V atom of 0.138 (2) Å.
Within each domain 0 < x < 0.5 and 0.5 < x < 1.0 there are four molecules, two of each with the Λ and Δ forms alternating, in chess-board fashion, on an approximately square grid (Fig. 2).
Experimental
The title compound was prepared from VO(CH3COCHCOCH3)2, according to the published procedure of Grdenić & Korpar-Čolig (1964), except that powdered tin was employed as the reducing agent rather than powdered zinc [m.p. 457 K; literature m.p. (Grdenić & Korpar-Čolig, 1964) 457 K].
Crystal data
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Refinement
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All H atoms were located in difference maps, and then treated as riding atoms, with C—H distances 0.95 Å and Uiso(H) = 1.2Ueq(C) for the ring CH atoms, and C—H distances 0.98 Å and Uiso(H) = 1.5Ueq(C) for the methyl groups.
Data collection: COLLECT (Hooft, 1999); cell DENZO (Otwinowski & Minor, 1997) and COLLECT; data reduction: DENZO and COLLECT; program(s) used to solve structure: OSCAIL (McArdle, 2003) and SHELXS97 (Sheldrick, 1997); program(s) used to refine structure: OSCAIL and SHELXL97 (Sheldrick, 1997); molecular graphics: PLATON (Spek, 2003); software used to prepare material for publication: SHELXL97 and PRPKAPPA (Ferguson, 1999).
Supporting information
https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600536805018441/lh6448sup1.cif
contains datablocks global, I. DOI:Structure factors: contains datablock I. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600536805018441/lh6448Isup2.hkl
Data collection: COLLECT (Hooft, 1999); cell
DENZO (Otwinowski & Minor, 1997) and COLLECT; data reduction: DENZO and COLLECT; program(s) used to solve structure: OSCAIL (McArdle, 2003) and SHELXS97 (Sheldrick, 1997); program(s) used to refine structure: OSCAIL and SHELXL97 (Sheldrick, 1997); molecular graphics: PLATON (Spek, 2003); software used to prepare material for publication: SHELXL97 and PRPKAPPA (Ferguson, 1999).[V(C5H7O2)3] | F(000) = 1456 |
Mr = 348.26 | Dx = 1.386 Mg m−3 |
Orthorhombic, Pbca | Mo Kα radiation, λ = 0.71073 Å |
Hall symbol: -P 2ac 2ab | Cell parameters from 3824 reflections |
a = 13.3920 (7) Å | θ = 3.2–27.5° |
b = 16.4043 (6) Å | µ = 0.62 mm−1 |
c = 15.1901 (10) Å | T = 120 K |
V = 3337.1 (3) Å3 | Plate, brown |
Z = 8 | 0.22 × 0.18 × 0.03 mm |
Bruker–Nonius 95mm CCD camera on κ goniostat diffractometer | 3824 independent reflections |
Radiation source: Bruker-Nonius FR91 rotating anode | 1876 reflections with I > 2σ(I) |
Graphite monochromator | Rint = 0.174 |
Detector resolution: 9.091 pixels mm-1 | θmax = 27.5°, θmin = 3.2° |
π and ω scans | h = −17→17 |
Absorption correction: multi-scan (SADABS; Sheldrick, 2003) | k = −21→21 |
Tmin = 0.859, Tmax = 0.982 | l = −19→18 |
30601 measured reflections |
Refinement on F2 | Primary atom site location: structure-invariant direct methods |
Least-squares matrix: full | Secondary atom site location: difference Fourier map |
R[F2 > 2σ(F2)] = 0.058 | Hydrogen site location: inferred from neighbouring sites |
wR(F2) = 0.135 | H-atom parameters constrained |
S = 1.00 | w = 1/[σ2(Fo2) + (0.0529P)2 + 0.2837P] where P = (Fo2 + 2Fc2)/3 |
3824 reflections | (Δ/σ)max < 0.001 |
205 parameters | Δρmax = 0.32 e Å−3 |
0 restraints | Δρmin = −0.47 e Å−3 |
x | y | z | Uiso*/Ueq | ||
V1 | 0.27195 (4) | 0.25489 (3) | 0.64183 (3) | 0.02443 (18) | |
O11 | 0.18295 (16) | 0.33275 (14) | 0.70562 (13) | 0.0298 (6) | |
O13 | 0.34058 (17) | 0.35266 (14) | 0.59448 (14) | 0.0325 (6) | |
O21 | 0.19802 (16) | 0.16706 (13) | 0.70173 (14) | 0.0302 (6) | |
O23 | 0.37185 (15) | 0.25153 (14) | 0.74014 (14) | 0.0289 (5) | |
O31 | 0.17568 (16) | 0.25354 (14) | 0.54240 (13) | 0.0298 (5) | |
O33 | 0.35710 (16) | 0.17987 (14) | 0.57521 (15) | 0.0311 (6) | |
C11 | 0.1690 (3) | 0.4085 (2) | 0.6926 (2) | 0.0333 (9) | |
C12 | 0.2281 (3) | 0.4557 (2) | 0.6374 (2) | 0.0424 (10) | |
C13 | 0.3122 (3) | 0.4271 (2) | 0.5946 (2) | 0.0351 (9) | |
C14 | 0.0859 (3) | 0.4467 (2) | 0.7451 (3) | 0.0495 (11) | |
C15 | 0.3795 (3) | 0.4855 (2) | 0.5466 (3) | 0.0515 (12) | |
C21 | 0.2160 (3) | 0.1329 (2) | 0.7760 (2) | 0.0353 (9) | |
C22 | 0.2988 (3) | 0.1485 (2) | 0.8267 (3) | 0.0396 (10) | |
C23 | 0.3745 (2) | 0.2049 (2) | 0.8063 (2) | 0.0302 (8) | |
C24 | 0.1377 (3) | 0.0738 (3) | 0.8056 (3) | 0.0565 (12) | |
C25 | 0.4643 (3) | 0.2109 (2) | 0.8651 (2) | 0.0414 (10) | |
C31 | 0.1806 (3) | 0.2154 (2) | 0.4697 (2) | 0.0306 (9) | |
C32 | 0.2614 (3) | 0.1652 (2) | 0.4453 (2) | 0.0351 (9) | |
C33 | 0.3428 (3) | 0.1500 (2) | 0.4981 (2) | 0.0325 (9) | |
C34 | 0.0925 (3) | 0.2243 (2) | 0.4089 (2) | 0.0407 (10) | |
C35 | 0.4259 (3) | 0.0943 (2) | 0.4668 (3) | 0.0453 (10) | |
H12 | 0.2096 | 0.5110 | 0.6286 | 0.051* | |
H14A | 0.0265 | 0.4119 | 0.7423 | 0.074* | |
H14B | 0.0701 | 0.5005 | 0.7207 | 0.074* | |
H14C | 0.1069 | 0.4527 | 0.8066 | 0.074* | |
H15A | 0.4405 | 0.4941 | 0.5809 | 0.077* | |
H15B | 0.3450 | 0.5377 | 0.5387 | 0.077* | |
H15C | 0.3967 | 0.4629 | 0.4888 | 0.077* | |
H22 | 0.3055 | 0.1188 | 0.8801 | 0.047* | |
H24A | 0.0730 | 0.1016 | 0.8090 | 0.085* | |
H24B | 0.1553 | 0.0524 | 0.8638 | 0.085* | |
H24C | 0.1334 | 0.0287 | 0.7634 | 0.085* | |
H25A | 0.5127 | 0.1688 | 0.8489 | 0.062* | |
H25B | 0.4438 | 0.2031 | 0.9265 | 0.062* | |
H25C | 0.4949 | 0.2648 | 0.8585 | 0.062* | |
H32 | 0.2595 | 0.1404 | 0.3888 | 0.042* | |
H34A | 0.0439 | 0.1811 | 0.4213 | 0.061* | |
H34B | 0.1149 | 0.2200 | 0.3477 | 0.061* | |
H34C | 0.0611 | 0.2776 | 0.4183 | 0.061* | |
H35A | 0.4906 | 0.1200 | 0.4784 | 0.068* | |
H35B | 0.4188 | 0.0847 | 0.4034 | 0.068* | |
H35C | 0.4221 | 0.0423 | 0.4982 | 0.068* |
U11 | U22 | U33 | U12 | U13 | U23 | |
V1 | 0.0213 (3) | 0.0267 (3) | 0.0253 (3) | 0.0004 (3) | 0.0020 (2) | 0.0012 (3) |
O11 | 0.0275 (14) | 0.0328 (15) | 0.0292 (13) | 0.0027 (11) | 0.0039 (11) | −0.0025 (11) |
O13 | 0.0265 (15) | 0.0313 (15) | 0.0397 (15) | 0.0002 (11) | 0.0071 (11) | 0.0062 (12) |
O21 | 0.0240 (14) | 0.0321 (14) | 0.0344 (14) | −0.0060 (11) | −0.0020 (11) | 0.0026 (12) |
O23 | 0.0237 (13) | 0.0328 (14) | 0.0301 (12) | −0.0023 (12) | −0.0002 (10) | 0.0028 (12) |
O31 | 0.0219 (13) | 0.0413 (14) | 0.0263 (12) | 0.0029 (12) | 0.0021 (10) | −0.0020 (12) |
O33 | 0.0272 (14) | 0.0334 (14) | 0.0328 (13) | 0.0030 (11) | −0.0003 (11) | −0.0042 (11) |
C11 | 0.030 (2) | 0.036 (2) | 0.034 (2) | 0.0041 (18) | −0.0074 (17) | −0.0050 (18) |
C12 | 0.049 (3) | 0.029 (2) | 0.049 (2) | 0.007 (2) | 0.001 (2) | 0.009 (2) |
C13 | 0.041 (2) | 0.037 (2) | 0.028 (2) | −0.0016 (19) | −0.0065 (17) | 0.0070 (17) |
C14 | 0.041 (3) | 0.053 (3) | 0.054 (2) | 0.018 (2) | 0.004 (2) | −0.011 (2) |
C15 | 0.059 (3) | 0.038 (2) | 0.058 (3) | −0.012 (2) | 0.003 (2) | 0.015 (2) |
C21 | 0.037 (2) | 0.030 (2) | 0.039 (2) | −0.0023 (18) | 0.0025 (18) | 0.0054 (17) |
C22 | 0.039 (3) | 0.038 (2) | 0.041 (2) | −0.0022 (19) | −0.0074 (18) | 0.0146 (19) |
C23 | 0.025 (2) | 0.036 (2) | 0.030 (2) | 0.0050 (17) | −0.0022 (16) | −0.0060 (18) |
C24 | 0.054 (3) | 0.060 (3) | 0.056 (3) | −0.028 (2) | 0.002 (2) | 0.019 (2) |
C25 | 0.028 (2) | 0.058 (3) | 0.037 (2) | 0.0038 (19) | −0.0062 (17) | 0.004 (2) |
C31 | 0.026 (2) | 0.039 (2) | 0.027 (2) | −0.0084 (18) | 0.0018 (16) | 0.0032 (17) |
C32 | 0.032 (2) | 0.041 (2) | 0.032 (2) | −0.0017 (19) | 0.0025 (17) | −0.0097 (17) |
C33 | 0.032 (2) | 0.024 (2) | 0.042 (2) | −0.0025 (17) | 0.0081 (18) | −0.0029 (17) |
C34 | 0.030 (2) | 0.065 (3) | 0.027 (2) | −0.0012 (19) | −0.0008 (16) | 0.0005 (18) |
C35 | 0.038 (3) | 0.039 (2) | 0.060 (3) | 0.0076 (19) | 0.004 (2) | −0.015 (2) |
V1—O11 | 1.998 (2) | C21—C22 | 1.375 (5) |
V1—O13 | 1.983 (2) | C21—C24 | 1.497 (5) |
V1—O21 | 1.971 (2) | C22—C23 | 1.407 (5) |
V1—O23 | 2.006 (2) | C22—H22 | 0.95 |
V1—O31 | 1.986 (2) | C23—C25 | 1.502 (4) |
V1—O33 | 1.959 (2) | C24—H24A | 0.98 |
C11—O11 | 1.272 (4) | C24—H24B | 0.98 |
C13—O13 | 1.279 (4) | C24—H24C | 0.98 |
C21—O21 | 1.283 (4) | C25—H25A | 0.98 |
C23—O23 | 1.263 (4) | C25—H25B | 0.98 |
C31—O31 | 1.271 (4) | C25—H25C | 0.98 |
C33—O33 | 1.284 (4) | C31—C32 | 1.409 (5) |
C11—C12 | 1.387 (5) | C31—C34 | 1.506 (5) |
C11—C14 | 1.507 (5) | C32—C33 | 1.377 (5) |
C12—C13 | 1.383 (5) | C32—H32 | 0.95 |
C12—H12 | 0.95 | C33—C35 | 1.516 (5) |
C13—C15 | 1.504 (5) | C34—H34A | 0.98 |
C14—H14A | 0.98 | C34—H34B | 0.98 |
C14—H14B | 0.98 | C34—H34C | 0.98 |
C14—H14C | 0.98 | C35—H35A | 0.98 |
C15—H15A | 0.98 | C35—H35B | 0.98 |
C15—H15B | 0.98 | C35—H35C | 0.98 |
C15—H15C | 0.98 | ||
O33—V1—O21 | 94.10 (10) | C21—C22—C23 | 125.5 (3) |
O33—V1—O13 | 92.92 (10) | C21—C22—H22 | 117.3 |
O21—V1—O13 | 172.45 (10) | C23—C22—H22 | 117.3 |
O21—V1—O31 | 90.96 (9) | O23—C23—C22 | 123.6 (3) |
O13—V1—O31 | 91.96 (10) | O23—C23—C25 | 117.1 (3) |
O33—V1—O11 | 177.91 (9) | C22—C23—C25 | 119.3 (3) |
O21—V1—O11 | 86.78 (9) | C23—O23—V1 | 128.9 (2) |
O11—V1—O13 | 86.30 (10) | C21—C24—H24A | 109.5 |
O31—V1—O11 | 89.35 (9) | C21—C24—H24B | 109.5 |
O33—V1—O23 | 88.80 (9) | H24A—C24—H24B | 109.5 |
O21—V1—O23 | 88.35 (9) | C21—C24—H24C | 109.5 |
O31—V1—O33 | 88.74 (9) | H24A—C24—H24C | 109.5 |
O13—V1—O23 | 89.03 (9) | H24B—C24—H24C | 109.5 |
O31—V1—O23 | 177.39 (10) | C23—C25—H25A | 109.5 |
O11—V1—O23 | 93.12 (9) | C23—C25—H25B | 109.5 |
O11—C11—C12 | 123.7 (3) | H25A—C25—H25B | 109.5 |
O11—C11—C14 | 115.6 (3) | C23—C25—H25C | 109.5 |
C12—C11—C14 | 120.6 (3) | H25A—C25—H25C | 109.5 |
C11—O11—V1 | 129.5 (2) | H25B—C25—H25C | 109.5 |
C13—C12—C11 | 124.0 (3) | O31—C31—C32 | 123.8 (3) |
C13—C12—H12 | 118.0 | O31—C31—C34 | 116.4 (3) |
C11—C12—H12 | 118.0 | C32—C31—C34 | 119.8 (3) |
O13—C13—C12 | 124.5 (3) | C31—O31—V1 | 129.2 (2) |
O13—C13—C15 | 115.4 (3) | C33—C32—C31 | 124.1 (3) |
C12—C13—C15 | 120.0 (4) | C33—C32—H32 | 117.9 |
C13—O13—V1 | 129.3 (2) | C31—C32—H32 | 117.9 |
C11—C14—H14A | 109.5 | O33—C33—C32 | 125.4 (3) |
C11—C14—H14B | 109.5 | O33—C33—C35 | 114.0 (3) |
H14A—C14—H14B | 109.5 | C32—C33—C35 | 120.5 (3) |
C11—C14—H14C | 109.5 | C33—O33—V1 | 128.7 (2) |
H14A—C14—H14C | 109.5 | C31—C34—H34A | 109.5 |
H14B—C14—H14C | 109.5 | C31—C34—H34B | 109.5 |
C13—C15—H15A | 109.5 | H34A—C34—H34B | 109.5 |
C13—C15—H15B | 109.5 | C31—C34—H34C | 109.5 |
H15A—C15—H15B | 109.5 | H34A—C34—H34C | 109.5 |
C13—C15—H15C | 109.5 | H34B—C34—H34C | 109.5 |
H15A—C15—H15C | 109.5 | C33—C35—H35A | 109.5 |
H15B—C15—H15C | 109.5 | C33—C35—H35B | 109.5 |
O21—C21—C22 | 124.2 (3) | H35A—C35—H35B | 109.5 |
O21—C21—C24 | 114.6 (3) | C33—C35—H35C | 109.5 |
C22—C21—C24 | 121.2 (3) | H35A—C35—H35C | 109.5 |
C21—O21—V1 | 129.2 (2) | H35B—C35—H35C | 109.5 |
C12—C11—O11—V1 | −11.0 (5) | C21—C22—C23—O23 | 4.2 (6) |
C14—C11—O11—V1 | 172.0 (2) | C21—C22—C23—C25 | −175.6 (4) |
O21—V1—O11—C11 | −166.3 (3) | C22—C23—O23—V1 | −5.6 (5) |
O13—V1—O11—C11 | 16.7 (3) | C25—C23—O23—V1 | 174.2 (2) |
O31—V1—O11—C11 | −75.3 (3) | O33—V1—O23—C23 | −92.0 (3) |
O23—V1—O11—C11 | 105.5 (3) | O21—V1—O23—C23 | 2.1 (3) |
O11—C11—C12—C13 | −4.1 (6) | O13—V1—O23—C23 | 175.1 (3) |
C14—C11—C12—C13 | 172.7 (3) | O11—V1—O23—C23 | 88.8 (3) |
C11—C12—C13—O13 | 6.3 (6) | C32—C31—O31—V1 | −1.0 (5) |
C11—C12—C13—C15 | −171.3 (3) | C34—C31—O31—V1 | 177.4 (2) |
C12—C13—O13—V1 | 6.8 (5) | O33—V1—O31—C31 | −0.2 (3) |
C15—C13—O13—V1 | −175.5 (2) | O21—V1—O31—C31 | −94.2 (3) |
O33—V1—O13—C13 | 163.6 (3) | O13—V1—O31—C31 | 92.7 (3) |
O31—V1—O13—C13 | 74.8 (3) | O11—V1—O31—C31 | 179.0 (3) |
O11—V1—O13—C13 | −14.5 (3) | O31—C31—C32—C33 | 1.8 (6) |
O23—V1—O13—C13 | −107.6 (3) | C34—C31—C32—C33 | −176.6 (3) |
C22—C21—O21—V1 | −5.2 (5) | C31—C32—C33—O33 | −1.1 (6) |
C24—C21—O21—V1 | 174.0 (3) | C31—C32—C33—C35 | 179.3 (3) |
O33—V1—O21—C21 | 91.9 (3) | C32—C33—O33—V1 | −0.3 (5) |
O31—V1—O21—C21 | −179.3 (3) | C35—C33—O33—V1 | 179.3 (2) |
O11—V1—O21—C21 | −90.0 (3) | O21—V1—O33—C33 | 91.6 (3) |
O23—V1—O21—C21 | 3.2 (3) | O13—V1—O33—C33 | −91.1 (3) |
O21—C21—C22—C23 | 1.4 (6) | O31—V1—O33—C33 | 0.8 (3) |
C24—C21—C22—C23 | −177.6 (4) | O23—V1—O33—C33 | 179.9 (3) |
Acknowledgements
X-ray data were collected at the EPSRC X-ray Crystallographic Service, University of Southampton, England. The authors thank the staff for all their help and advice.
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