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Two new six-coordinated high-spin Co(II) complexes have been synthesized through the reactions of Co(II) salts with dipyridylamine (dpamH) and 5-nitro-salicylaldehyde (5-NO2-saloH) or 3-methoxy-salicylaldehyde (3-OCH3-saloH) under argon atmosphere: [Co(dpamH)2(5-NO2-salo)]NO3 (1) and [Co(dpamH)2(3-OCH3-salo)]NO3·1.3 EtOH·0.4H2O (2). According to the crystal packing of compound 1, two coordination cations are linked with two nitrate anions into a cyclic dimeric arrangement via N-H···O and C-H···O hydrogen bonds. In turn, these dimers are assembled into (100) layers through π-π stacking interactions between inversion-center related pyridine rings of the dpamH ligands. The crystal packing of compound 2 reveals a 1D assembly consisting solely from the coordination cations, which is formed by π-π stacking interactions between pyridine rings of one of the dpamH along the [010] and another 1D assembly of the coordination cations and nitrate anions through the N-H···O hydrogen-bonding interactions along the [001] direction. All complexes were magnetically characterized, and a new approximation method was used to fit the magnetic susceptibility data in the whole temperature range 2-300 K on the basis of an empirical expression which allows the treatment of each cobalt(II) ion in axial symmetry as an effective spin S(eff) = 1/2. In zero-field, dynamic magnetic susceptibility measurements show slow magnetic relaxation below 5.5 K for compound 2. The slow dynamics may originate from the motion of broad domain walls and is characterized by an Arrhenius law with a single energy barrier Δr/k(B) = 55(1) K for the [10-1488 Hz] frequency range. In order to reveal the importance of the crystal packing in the SCM behavior, a gentle heating process to 180 °C was carried out to remove the solvent molecules. The system, after heating, undergoes a major but not complete collapse of the network retaining to a small percentage its SCM character.

Copper(II) complexes of hexadentate ethylenediaminetetracarboxylic acid type ligands H(4)eda3p and H(4)eddadp (H(4)eda3p = ethylenediamine-N-acetic-N,N',N'-tri-3-propionic acid; H(4)eddadp = ethylenediamine-N,N'-diacetic-N,N'-di-3-propionic acid) have been prepared. An octahedral trans(O(6)) geometry (two propionate ligands coordinated in axial positions) has been established crystallographically for the Ba[Cu(eda3p)]·8H(2)O compound, while Ba[Cu(eddadp)]·8H(2)O is proposed to adopt a trans(O(5)) geometry (two axial acetates) on the basis of density functional theory calculations and comparisons of IR and UV-vis spectral data. Experimental and computed structural data correlating similar copper(II) chelate complexes have been used to better understand the isomerism and departure from regular octahedral geometry within the series. The in-plane O-Cu-N chelate angles show the smallest deviation from the ideal octahedral value of 90°, and hence the lowest strain, for the eddadp complex with two equatorial β-propionate rings. A linear dependence between tetragonality and the number of five-membered rings has been established. A natural bonding orbital analysis of the series of complexes is also presented.

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