Abstract
The reaction of both tris(2-aminoethyl)amine and tris(2-dimethylaminoethyl)amine with Zn(ClO
4)
2 in the presence of equimolar amount of NaBPh
4 in methanol afforded two different zinc(II) complexes, namely ({[tren]Zn(HOMe)}
·
ClO
4
·
BPh
4)
1 and ({[trenMe
6]Zn}
·
ClO
4
·
BPh
4)
2. Zinc(II) Complex
1, which has been structurally characterized by X-ray crystallography, takes up CO
2 in methanol in the presence of base to fix it into monomethyl carbonato complex ({[tren]Zn(OCO
2Me)}
·
BPh
4
·
2MeOH)
3.