Thermoanalytical and spectroscopic studies on hydrazinium lighter lanthanide complexes of 2-pyrazinecarboxylic acid

The new hydrazinium lanthanide metal complexes of 2-pyrazinecarboxylic acid (HpyzCOO) of the formulae (N₂H₅)₂[Ln(pyzCOO) ₅] • 2H₂O (1), where Ln = La or Ce and (N ₂H₅)₃[Ln(pyzCOO)₄(H₂O)] • 2NO₃ (2), where Ln = Pr, Nd, Sm or Dy have been synthesized and characterized by physico-chemical methods. The IR absorption bands of N-N stretching at 960 cm^-1 unambiguously prove the existence of N ₂H₅ ⁺ ions. The bonding parameters β, b^1/2, % δ and η, have been calculated from the electronic spectroscopic (hypersensitive) bands of Pr(III) and Nd(III) complexes. All the complexes undergo endothermic followed by exothermic decomposition to leave the respective metal oxides as the end products. However, the DTA of the complexes 2 demonstrate rather sharp peak than the complexes 1, owing to overwhelming exothermicity, which may be due to the loss of both hydrazine and nitrate moieties in the same step. The X-ray powder diffraction studies reveal the existence of isomorphism among the member complexes.