Source of materialThe mixture of Cu(CH 3COO)2 · 5H2O (0.5 mmol, 0.100 g) and H 2ADA (1 mmol, 0.190 g; H2NCOCH2N(CH2COOH)2, N-carbamoylmethyl-iminodiacetic acid or named N-(2-acetamido)iminodiacetic acid) was stirred into 6 mL 50 % methanolic solution at room temperature, which was refluxed about 20 min. Then the pH was adjusted to approximately 6 with NaOH solid, and 4 mL 50 % methanolic solution of 1,10 phenanthroline (0.5 mmol, 0.100 g) was added. The reaction mixture was heated on a water bath for 6 h at 60°C and then filtered. The blue prismatic crystal was separated from the mother liquor by slow evaporation at room temperature after one week (yield 0.158 g, 65 %).
Experimental detailsThe water H atoms were freely refined due to their importance in the hydrogen bonding. The other H atoms were added geometrically and refined using rigid body approximation.
DiscussionChelation of ADA (the divalent anion of H2ADA) and metal(II) ions (such as Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd, Hg, Pb etc.) in solution has been well researched for a long time [1]. H 2ADA acts as a polydentate ligand and presents a variety of coordination modes because of the presence of carbamoyl function and iminodiacetic group. It is not only a well-known chelating agent, but also used in biological buffers of pH 6.0-7.4 [2,3]. In recent studies, it was found that the investigation of ADA-metal chelates in solid state provides information about the chelating role of the divalent anion H 2 NCOCH 2 N(CH 2 COO ) 2 . Therefore, some mixedligand complexes of transitional metal ions with ADA as primary ligand and water molecule, imidazole and 2,2¢-bipyridine as secondary ligands have been reported [1,[4][5][6][7][8]. However, crystal structures of the mixed-ligand metal(II) complexes with ADA and 1,10-phenanthroline compound have not been studied so far. The asymmetric unit of the title crystal structure consists of a [Cu(ADA)(phen)] moiety and two hydrate water molecules (figure, top). The Cu(II) ion is five-coordinated (CuN 3 O 2 ) and the coordination polyhedron is a distorted trigonal bipyramid in which the divalent ADA anion acts as tridentate chelating ligand. The bond lengths of Cu1O1, Cu1O3 and Cu1N3 are 1.942(2) Å, 2.102(2) Å and 2.171(2) Å, respectively. The phen molecule serves as bidentate ligand chelating to the Cu(II) ion with Cu1N1 and CuN2 bond distances of 2.007(2) Å and 2.032(2) Å, respectively. It should be pointed out that the CuN (imino) and CuO (carboxyl) bonds are longer than those reported in other metal-ADA complexes [1,6,7], but remarkable close to nickel(II) complex [Ni(ADA)(bipy)(H 2 O)] · 4H 2 O (I) [8], which is probably due to steric hindrance of phen (or 2,2¢-bipyridine) weakening the bonding interaction of ADA with metal ions. The Cu(II) Z. Kristallogr.