Author(s)

Bridget N. Ndosiri^1*, Emmanuel N. Nfor², Jérôme Marrot³, Aminou Mohamadou⁴, Justin Nenwa¹

¹Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
²Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon.
³Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Institut Lavoisier UMR 8180, Versailles, France.
⁴Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Institut de Chimie Moléculaire de Reims (ICMR), CNRS UMR 7312, UFR des Sciences.

A novel chiral Nickel (II) complex of N-(2-pyridylmethyl)-L-alanine (Hpyala) 1 has been prepared and structurally characterized by elemental analysis, FT-IR, UV-visible, TGA and single crystal X-ray diffraction techniques. Complex 1 crystallizes in an orthorhombic P2₁2₁2₁ space group. The nickel (II) centre in the complex adopts a distorted octahedral geometry. This compound has been seen to exhibit structural diversity resulting from the number of lattice water molecules. The photoluminescent properties of this compound which have also been investigated, indicates the potential application in luminescence.

Nickel (II) Complex, Chiral, Photoluminescent, X-Ray Diffraction

Ndosiri, B. , Nfor, E. , Marrot, J. , Mohamadou, A. and Nenwa, J. (2020) Ni(II) N-(2-Pyridylmethyl)-L-Alanine) Complex: Structural Diversity and Photoluminiscent Studies. Crystal Structure Theory and Applications, 9, 63-72. doi: 10.4236/csta.2020.94006.