Crystal Structure of a Mixed Ligand Trinuclear Complex of Cadmium(ii)

Single crystals of a complex made from cadmium (II) acetate and the Schiff base of salicylaldehyde and 1,3–diaminopropane, and recrystallized from pyridine, was synthesized and its structure determined by single‐crystal X-ray diffraction methods. It crystallizes in the monoclinic system, space group P21/n with a = 15.959(4), b = 26.222(3), c = 25.907(6) Å, β = 101.60(2)°, V = 10620(7) Å3, M = 1652.80, Z = 4, Dc = 1.034 g cm−3, μ = 6.34 cm−1, and F(000) = 3360. Refinement gave R = 0.078, Rw = 0.077 for 4990 observed reflection with I ≤ 3σ(I). Each Cd(II) atom is coordinated by two nitrogen atoms from two pyridine molecules, two oxygen atoms and one nitrogen atom from the Schiff base and one nitrogen atom from another Schiff base to form a distorted octahedron.