Synthesis and characterization of heteronuclear germanium(IV) and lanthanum(III) (chromium(III)) complexes with 1,3-diamino-2-propanoltetraacetic acid: Crystal and molecular structure of [Ge(OH)(μ-Hpdta)(μ-OH)La(H2O)4] · H2O

Two heteronuclear germanium(IV) and lanthanum(III) (chromium(III)) complexes with 1,3-diamino-2-propanoltetraacetic acid (H5Hpdta) have been synthesized. The compounds have been characterized by elemental analysis and X-ray powder diffraction data. The structure of [Ge(OH)(μ-Hpdta)(μ-OH)La(H2O)4] · H2O (I) has been determined by X-ray crystallography. The crystals are monoclinic, a = 9.3805(3) Å, b = 10.3023(4) Å, c = 21.6527(6) Å, β = 94.829(2)°, V = 2085.10(12) Å3, Z = 4, space group P21/n, R1 = 0.0294 based on 5480 reflections with I > 2σ(I). Compound I is composed of binuclear [Ge(OH)(μ-Hpdta)(μ-OH)La(H2O)4] molecules and crystal water molecules. In the dimeric molecule, the germanium and lanthanum atoms are linked by the bridging oxygen atom of the hydroxo ligand and the oxygen atom of the deprotonated isopropanol group of Hpdta5−. The coordination spheres of germanium and lanthanum each contains one nitrogen atom and two carboxyl oxygen atoms of the four acetate arms of the heptadentate Hpdta5− ligand. The Ge coordination polyhedron is completed to a distorted octahedron by the oxygen atom of the terminal hydroxo group, and the lanthanum coordination polyhedron is completed to a nine-vertex polyhedron by the oxygen atoms of four water molecules. In crystal, the complex molecules and crystal water molecules are combined by a system of hydrogen bonds.