- P-ISSN 1225-0163
- E-ISSN 2288-8985
A novel two-dimensional cadmium(II)-nickel(II) bimetallic host clathrate, [Cd{NH2CH2CH2OH}2Ni(CN)4]· 3C6H5NH2·H2O, 1, has been synthesized and structurally characterized by X-ray single crystallographic method. The clathrate 1 crystallizes in the monoclinic system, space group P21/c with a = 14.370(3), b = 7.728(1), c = 28.172(4) Å, β = 97.58(1)°, V = 3101.1(9) Å3, Z = 4. The host framework of the clathrate 1 is built of the cyanide bridges between octahedral Cd(II) atom and square planar Ni(II) atom. The octahedral Cd atoms ligated by two 2-aminoethanol molecules and four cyanide ligands bridged with square planar Ni atoms. The Ni atoms bridges to four Cd atoms via cyanides is made up of puckered quadrangles of composition {CdNi(CN)2}2, all edges are shared. This cyanide bridges form an infinite two-dimensional host networks stacking along b axis. 2-Aminoethanol ligands bond to Cd atom through N atom as a monodentate ligand in the axial position and four cyanides take an equatorial plane with all in trans-configurations. The aniline guest molecules and water molecules are located in between the host layer sheets, respectively