Syntheses and Characterization of Zinc, Cadmium, and Mercury(II) Complexes with N‐(2‐pyridyl)carbonylaniline (L), X‐ray Crystal Structure of [Hg(L)(SCN) 2 ]

The reaction of N‐(2‐pyridyl)carbonylaniline (L) with Zn(NO 3 ) 2 , CdCl 2 , and Hg(SCN) 2 gives the following complexes: [Zn(L) 2 ](NO 3 ) 2 , [Cd(L) 2 Cl 2 ], and [Hg(L)(SCN) 2 ]. The new complexes were characterized by elemental analyses and IR‐, 1 H‐, 13 C‐NMR spectroscopy. The crystal structure of the [Hg(L)(SCN) 2 ] was determined by single crystal X‐ray analysis. The monomeric complex is built up of a Hg(SCN) 2 unit with one N‐(2‐pyridyl)carbonylaniline (L) ligand coordinated to the Hg atom via the ring pyridinic nitrogen atom and the carbonyl oxygen atom forming a five‐membered chelate ring. The Hg atom has a distorted tetrahedral environment. There is π‐π stacking interaction between the parallel aromatic rings belonging to adjacent chain as planar species in which the mean molecular planes are close to parallel and separated by a distance of ∼ 3.5Å, close to that of the planes in graphite. The coordinated N‐(2‐pyridyl)carbonylaniline (L) molecule is involved in hydrogen bonding acting as hydrogen‐bond donors with S and N atoms from SCN — ligand as potential hydrogen‐bond acceptors. There is a shortest intermolecular contacts between the S and N atoms. The hydrogen bonding and shortest intermolecular contacts between the S and N atoms yields infinite chains parallel to the crystallographic vector c. Each molecule is bonded to two neighbors.