Synthesis of solvates of the copper(II) complex with chiral caryophyllane-type morpholino oxime (HL). Structure of Cu(HL)Cl2 · CHCl3

Paramagnetic Cu(HL)Cl2 · 0.25CHCl3 (I) and Cu(HL)C12 · 0.25CH2C12 (II), where HL is the optically active morpholino oxime obtained from the terpenoid caryophyllene, were synthesized. The crystals of Cu(HL)Cl2 · CHCl3 (III) were isolated. According to X-ray diffraction data, the crystals of III are composed of acentric mononuclear complex molecules Cu(HL)Cl2 and solvate molecules CHCl3. In the complex molecules, the Cu ion coordinates two N atoms of the bidentate chelating ligand HL and two C1 atoms at the vertices of a distorted tetrahedron. The translationally identical molecules of the complex combined by H-bonds form chains along the axis x.