SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION, AND

PROPERTIES OF NOVEL TRANSITION METAL

FLUORIDE COMPOUNDS CONTAINING ORGANIC
LIGANDS

Course no.: CHE 471

Course title: Research project

Submitted by: Syeda Faiza Mahmuda

Registration no.: 2017131001
Supervised by: Dr. Belal Ahmed, Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
SHAHJALAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, SYLHET.
 The goal of this project
To synthesize Metal-organic hybrid crystals from reaction of MX 2 (M = Cs, Ba, Zn, Cd; X =
Br, Cl) and organic chiral ligands (L-arginine, L-cysteine, L-leucine, L-phenylalanine, and L-
tryptophan) in the aqueous acidic medium through slow evaporation method.

RESEARCH BACKGROUND

Centrosymmetric
compounds (CS) Functional Pyroelectricity
Crystalline Ferroelectricity
properties of NCS
materials Non-centrosymmetric Second harmonic compounds Piezoelectricity
Compounds (NCS) generation (SHG)

NCS compounds do not possess any Same geometry

requirements
centre of inversion.
RESEARCH BACKGROUND

NCS crystals exhibit SHG properties

Some salient NCS chromophores are:

• Transition metal cations with d10 configuration with
extremely polar displacement in the coordination
environment. Such as Zn2+,Cd2+ etc.
• Cations that can undergo second order Jahn-Teller (SOJT)
distortions.
• Trigonal planar anions that contain π-conjugated
asymmetric molecular orbitals. Such as NO3−, CO32−, BO33−,
etc.
 RESEARCH BACKGROUND
NCS compound can be formed by combining polyhedra
(asymmetric) with:
• highly polarizable cations, The asymmetric
• anionic groups with conjugated orbitals, building blocks must
align in parallel
• SOJT distortive cations.
manner

NCS compound can be chiral in some cases

• Chiral amino acids are asymmetric has been used earlier make compounds that
crystallize in macroscopic NCS structure efficiently.
• They impart their chiral structure information to the ultimate framework.
 EXPERIMENTS

Targeted products

O Cl NH2 NH O Cl Br
NH2
Cl H Br Cl Zn Br
Cd H2N N O HN N Ba H N O Br
O Cl Cd Br 2 O Cl 2 O O Cl
NH2
H
NH2
Cd
NH O Br HS
Cl
O Cl
O Br NH O Cl O Br O Br
Br Cl Br Br
Cs H2N O Ba Cd Zn
O Br N Br O Cl HS O Br O Br
H Br NH2 NH2
NH2 O Cd NH2
H2N Br
EXPERIMENTS

Various MX2 salts (M = Cs, Ba, Zn, Cd; X = Br, Cl) and organic chiral ligands (L-arginine, L-
cysteine, L-leucine, L-phenylalanine, and L-tryptophan) were reacted in acidic medium.

7.0 mmol of both MX2

The reaction mixture The petri dish was
Salt (say, CdBr2) and
was stirred for 60 kept still in a place
ligand (say. L-arginine) miniutes and
with 0.08 mL of HBr, for slow evaporation
transferred to a petri of the solvent
and 2.4 mL of H2O were dish
placed into a beaker

FTIR spectra of the Obtained crystals

crystals were taken were dried in air
R E S U LT S

Future directions:
What structural features make
amino acids capable of acting as
NCS chromophores; needs
investigation.
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YOU