Novel Thermally-Accessible Structural Changes of Chiral and Some Related Cu（ll） Complexes

A mononuclear chiral copper（ll） complex, [Cu（RRchxn）2（C（CN）3）2]＇H20 （RRchxn = （1R, 2R）-diaminocyclohexane） （RRchxnH）, and its deuterated compound, [Cu（RRchxn）2（C（CN）3）z].D20 （RRchxnD）, and their isomers, [Cu（trchxn）2（C（CN）3）2]＇H20 （trchxn = trans-l,2-diaminocyclohexane） （trchxnH） and [Cu（trchxn）2（C（CN）3）2]＇D20 （trchxnD） have been prepared and characterized by means of 1R （infrared）, electronic, and CD （circular dichroism） spectra, magnetic susceptibility, and variable-temperature X-ray crystallography as single crystals or powder. Interestingly, depending on grain size of samples, RRchxnH exhibits the monoclinic form and the orthorhombic form, which are distinguished by systematic absence and powder XRD （X-ray diffraction） patterns clearly. Although single crystals did not exhibit phase transition, powder XRD patterns of RRchxnH and weakly hydrogen bonded RRchxnD emerged low-temperature phase of monoclinic in the orthorhombic patterns only around 200-220 K. However, as a control, powder XRD patterns of both trchxnH and trchxnD did not exhibit such phase transition clearly.