Tris[2-(2-pyridylimino-meth-yl)phenol-ato(0.67-)]europium(III) nitrate

Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online. 2009 May 29;65(Pt 6):m697. doi: 10.1107/S1600536809017206.

Abstract

The title compound, [Eu(C(12)H(9.33)N(2)O)(3)]NO(3), was obtained by the reaction of Eu(NO(3))·3H(2)O and the Schiff base ligand 2-(2-pyridylimino-meth-yl)phenol. The Eu atom is located on a threefold rotation axis and is nine-coordinated by three tridentate Schiff base ligands in a distorted tricapped trigonal-prismatic geometry. The O atom at the phenol hydr-oxy group is partially deprotonated and the H atoms are modelled with one-third occupancy according to the space group R. Offset face-to-face π-π [centroid-centroid distance = 3.886 (3) Å] and edge-to-face C-H⋯π inter-actions are found between adjacent mol-ecules. An intra-molecular O-H⋯N hydrogen bond is also present.