%0 Journal Article %T Synthesis, structural and spectroscopic studies of novel azo-containing N,O-bonded complexes in the ¦Á-Iminoketone and Azophenolate forms %A Visentin %A Lorenzo C. %A Ferreira %A Leonardo C. %A Bordinh£¿o %A Jairo %A Filgueiras %A Carlos A. L. %J Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society %D 2010 %I Sociedade Brasileira de Qu¨ªmica, SBQ %R 10.1590/S0103-50532010000700005 %X this article describes the synthesis and the spectroscopic and structural characterization of two novel azo-containing complexes, cis-bis[4-nitro-2-(4-nitrophenylazo)-phenolate-¦Ên1]bis(piridino-¦Ên)cadmium(ii), 1, and cis-bis[2-(4-phenylazo-phenylimino)-2h-acenaphthylen-1-one]dichloromercury(ii), 2. in spite of the different metal centres, both complexes show an n,o-bidentate complexation to the metal. in 1 the metal coordinates to an azo n and to a phenolate o atom, whereas in 2 the metal binds to an o and an n atom of the ¦Á-iminoketone. both complexes show intramolecular ¦Ð-¦Ð interactions, which play an important role in their molecular structures. in addition they also present non-classical h-bonding, which is crucial to their supramolecular arrangements. moreover, 2 is the first case in the literature of a complex with a new class of ligand, an azoiminoketone, as well as the first case of an ¦Á-iminoketone hg complex. %K ¦Á-iminoketone %K azo-group %K ¦Ð-¦Ð interactions %K non-classical h-bonds. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0103-50532010000700005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en