Polymer complexes: LIX. Supramolecular structural, spectral and thermal analysis of N‐[2‐(6‐aminopyridino)] acrylamide polymer complexes

Novel ligand N‐[2‐(6‐aminopyridino)] acrylamide (APA) is prepared via amidation of 2,6‐diaminopyridine with acryloyl chloride in dry benzene as solvent. The ligand is characterized on the basis of elemental analysis, infra‐red (IR) analysis and 1H nuclear magnetic resonance. Metal–polymer complexes are reported and characterized based on elemental analysis, molar conductance, magnetic susceptibility measurements, IR, 1H nuclear magnetic resonance, electronic spectra and thermal analysis. The molar conductance of the polymer complexes in dimethylformamide corresponds to a 1:1/1:2 electrolyte, which is non‐electrolytic. IR spectra show that polyAPA is coordinated to the metal ions in a uni‐negatively bidentate manner with N, O donor sites of azomethine N and deprotonated enolic‐O. All the polymer complexes are of high spin type. On the basis of spectral studies an octahedral geometry may be assigned for Co(II) and Ni(II) polymer complexes. The thermal stabilities of the polymer complexes were studied and the activation energies of the degradation were calculated.