A Molecular Structure of Bis(N-octylethylenediamine)zinc(II) Nitrate in Crystal and the Aggregations in Wet Chloroform and Benzene Solutions

Zinc complex with N-octylethylenediamine( = OE), Zn(OE)2(NO3)2, was prepared and its molecular structure was determined on the basis of an X-ray crystallographic analysis. It was revealed that in the octahedral molecular structure the nitrato groups are trans and the octyl chains are transoid. Extensive aggregations of this complex in wet chloroform and wet benzene systems were also studied using 1H NMR self-diffusions for the solvents and the zinc complex.