Abstract
As part of an ongoing effort to develop new metal complexes of tetraazamacrocycles with novel properties in coordination or functionalization we report here the synthesis of a new derivative of 1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane (cyclen) with a tetraazole moiety directly bound to the azamacrocycle. The new ligand was obtained by reaction with cyanogen bromide giving the cyanamide, followed by a [2+3] ...
Abstract
As part of an ongoing effort to develop new metal complexes of tetraazamacrocycles with novel properties in coordination or functionalization we report here the synthesis of a new derivative of 1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane (cyclen) with a tetraazole moiety directly bound to the azamacrocycle. The new ligand was obtained by reaction with cyanogen bromide giving the cyanamide, followed by a [2+3] cycloaddition with NaN3 to yield the tetraazole. The ligand and its Zn(II), Ni(II), and Cu(II) complexes were fully characterized by analytical methods. X-ray structure analysis of the Ni(II) compound shows the formation of a stable dimer by coordination of each of the two tetraazole substituents to the neighboring metal cation. Potentiometric titrations of the metal complexes indicate a possible conversion of the monomer to the dimeric structure in solution and show the pKa of the NH-atom on the tetraazole substituent to be between 4.03 and 5.3 depending on the metal ion coordinated by cyclen.
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