The interactions of Zn(II), Cd(II) and Hg(II) with hippuric acid (hipH) were studied and several novel compounds were synthesized and studied by NMR. Some new metal-hippuric-cytosine ternary compounds were formed and the structure of the [Cd(hip)(2)(cyt)(H(2)O)](2) ternary complex resolved. Each cadmium (II) atom has a distorted trigonal bipyramid coordination which is linked to a water molecule, a cytosine via N(3), a carboxylic oxygen atom of a hippurate moiety and two bridging dicoordinated hippurates bound through the carboxylic oxygen atoms. To these five main bonds, two longer ancillary interactions can be observed: the second oxygen of the monocoordinated hippurate group and the carboxylic oxygen of the cytosine ligand. The compound is stabilized by an intramolecular stacking between the benzene and cytosine rings and by the hydrogen bonds between the coordinated water molecules and the ligands. This is, to our knowledge, the first structure of a cadmium-amino acid derivative-natural nucleobase compound described so far.
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Leicester School of Pharmacy, De Montfort University, Leicester LE1 9BH, UK.
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Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Functional Organic Polymer, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, East China University of Technology, Nanchang 330013 Jiangxi, P. R. China.
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Northwest University, College of Chemistry & Materials Science, CHINA.
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