The coordination ability of N,N'-ethylene bis(2-amino 1-butanol) dihydrochloride towards transition and representative metals

N,N'-Ethylene Bis (2-amino 1-butanol) Dihydrochloride (EBAB) reacts with divalent first row transition and representative metals to give complexes of the stiochiometry,. MLX(2) when L = EBAB, M = Cu(II), Ni(II), Co(II), cd(II) and Hg(II) X = Cl-, Br-, NO3-. These complexes have been characterized by elemental analysis, conductivity measurements, room temperature magnetic moment studies, electronic and IR spectra The ligand in these complexes behaves as bidentate like substituted ethylenediamine coordinating through nitrogen atoms. The solid state IR study and other data support distorted tetrahedral geometry of the type MN(2)X(2).

O REHMAN ,T ALI ,A RAUF ,S A KHAN ,