Unusual coordination modes of ligand 2-chloro-5-nitrobenzene sulfonate: Synthesis, spectroscopic characterization, thermal and X-ray structural studies of metal 2-chloro-5-nitrobenzene sulfonate complexes, metal = Tl(I), Cu(II), Ag(I) and Pb(II)

• Four new complexes of Tl(I), Ag(I), Cu(II) and Pb(II) have been synthesized.
• Thallium and silver complexes are coordination polymers.
• Copper complex exhibits ionic structure forming cationic and anionic layers.
• Unusual coordination behaviour of substituted cnb ligand.

Using metal ions thallium(I), copper(II), silver(I) and lead(II) and ligand 2-chloro-5-nitrobenzenesulfonate(cnb), four new metal complexes [Tl(cnb)]n(1), [Cu(en)2(H2O)2](cnb)2.2H2O(2), where en = ethylenediamine, [Ag(cnb)]n(3) and [Pb(cnb)2]n(4) have been synthesized and characterized by elemental analyses, spectroscopic methods (FT-IR, multinuclear NMR), single crystal X-ray structure analyses (except 4) and TGA analyses. Complexes 1 and 3 crystallize in monoclinic crystal system in P21/c space group having unit cell dimensions, a = 13.849(2) Å, b = 9.449(2) Å, c = 7.506(2)Å, β = 105.3°, V = 947.1 Å3, Z = 4 and a = 15.197(13)Å, b = 5.136(4)Å, c = 24.058(18)Å, β = 106.86°, V = 1797.1 Å3, Z = 4 respectively. Complex 2, crystallizes in triclinic crystal system with PI¯ having unit cell parameters; a = 6.888 Å, b = 7.835 Å, c = 13.227 Å, α = 80.20°, β = 83.15°, γ = 78.18°, V = 945.6 Å3, Z = 1. X-ray structure determination revealed that complexes 1 and 3 are polymeric in nature, whereas complex 2 has ionic structure. Remarkably, cnb ligand is coordinating through sulfonato oxygen atoms and nitro oxygen atoms in thallium complex but coordinates through sulfonato oxygen atoms and chloro group in silver complex, thereby showing the flexible/versatile coordinating behaviour of anionic ligand. This is unusual.

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