TGA-DTA, Infrared and X-Ray Powder Diffraction Studies on Strontium Nitroprusside and its Hydrates

C. O. DELLA VEDOVA; J. H. LESK; E. L. VARETTI; P. J. AYMONINO; O. E. PIRO; B. E. RIVERO; E. E. CASTELLANO

JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURE

Elsevier

Año: 1981 vol. 70 p. 241 - 245

0022-2860

ABSTRACT. Dehydration data for the tetra-, di- and monohydrate of strontium nitroprusside and the vibrational behaviour of the water molecules in normal and deuterated samples agree with crystal data previously reported (for the di- and tetrahydrate as single crystals) and in this paper (monohydrate as a powder). Four distinct types of water molecules are present in the three hydrates with one type (oxygen bonded to W+) in common. Other types are a non hydrogen-bonded molecule (dihydrate), a molecule bonded by a single hydrogen atom to the nitrogen atom of a cyanide group and a set of two molecules similarly bonded to the oxygen atom of the previous type (tetrahydrate). The spatial orientation of the NO groups of the nitroprusside ions in the tetrahydrate is confirmed by the observed dichroism of the corresponding stretching band.