Five- and Six-Coordinated Silver(I) Complexes Derived from 2,6-(Pyridyl)iminodiadamantanes: Sustained Release of Bioactive Silver toward Bacterial Eradication.

Silver(I) complexes of two designed tridentate ligands, namely, 2,6-(pyridyl)iminoditriazaadamantane (pydTAm) and 2,6-(pyridyl)iminodiadamantane (pydAm), have been synthesized and structurally characterized. [Ag(pydTAm)](CFSO) (1), the hitherto unknown mer isomer of a silver(I) octahedral complex, crystallizes in a highly symmetric body-centered cubic I4̅3m space group. Quite in contrast, the Ag center in the analogous [Ag(pydAm)](CFSO) (2) complex resides in a trigonal-bipyramidal geometry and crystallizes in a triclinic P1̅ space group with two crystallographically independent molecules in the asymmetric unit.