<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v3.0 20080202//EN" "http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/3.0/journalpublishing3.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="3.0" xml:lang="en" article-type="research article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">CSTA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Crystal Structure Theory and Applications</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2169-2491</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Scientific Research Publishing</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4236/csta.2019.81001</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">CSTA-95508</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline-v2"><subject>Chemistry&amp;Materials Science</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>
 
 
  Preparation, Crystal Structure and Spectroscopy Characterization of Vanadium(V) Complex, 2-Amino-4-Picolinium, 2-Methylimidazolium Decavanadate Hydrate (C&lt;sub&gt;4&lt;/sub&gt;N&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;H7)&lt;sub&gt;4&lt;/sub&gt;(C&lt;sub&gt;6&lt;/sub&gt;N&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;H&lt;sub&gt;10&lt;/sub&gt;)V&lt;sub&gt;10&lt;/sub&gt;O&lt;sub&gt;28&lt;/sub&gt;&#183;2H&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;O
 
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Myriam</surname><given-names>Louati</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Regaya</surname><given-names>Ksiksi</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Laurent</surname><given-names>Jouffret</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"><sup>2</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Mohamed</surname><given-names>Faouzi Zid</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1"><addr-line>University of Tunis El Manar, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Laboratory of Materials, Crystal Chemistry and Applied Thermodynamics, Tunis, Tunisia</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Clermont Auvergne University, Clermont-Ferrand, France</addr-line></aff><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>29</day><month>09</month><year>2019</year></pub-date><volume>08</volume><issue>01</issue><fpage>1</fpage><lpage>11</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>22,</day>	<month>January</month>	<year>2019</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>23,</day>	<month>February</month>	<year>2019</year>	</date><date date-type="accepted"><day>26,</day>	<month>February</month>	<year>2019</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#169; Copyright  2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. </copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><license><license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>
 
 
  A new decavanadate, (C
  <sub>4</sub>
  N
  <sub>2</sub>
  H
  <sub>7</sub>
  )
  <sub>4</sub>
  (C
  <sub>6</sub>
  N
  <sub>2</sub>
  H
  <sub>10</sub>
  )V
  <sub>10</sub>
  O
  <sub>28</sub>
  &#183;2H
  <sub>2</sub>
  O, was synthesized by slow
   evaporation at room temperature and characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction, IR and UV-Vis spectroscopies. The compound crystallizes in the triclinic system, P-1 space group with the cell parameters: a
   
  =
   
  11.200(5)
   
  &amp;Aring;, b
   
  =
   
  12.056(9)
   
  &amp;Aring;, c
   
  =
  
  20.511(7)
   
  &amp;Aring;, α
   
  =
   
  73.40(4), β
   
  =
   
  84.67(3), γ
   
  =
   
  63.51(5), Z
   
  =
   
  2 and volume V
   
  =
   
  2373.7(1)
   
  &amp;Aring;<sup>3</sup>. The formula unit is composed of one decavanadate [V<sub>10</sub>O<sub>28</sub>]<sup>6-</sup> anion, four 2-methylimidazolium (C<sub>4</sub>N<sub>2</sub>H<sub>7</sub>)<sup>+</sup> cations, one 2-amino-4-picolinium (C<sub>6</sub>N<sub>2</sub>H<sub>10</sub>)<sup>2+</sup> cation and two water molecules. In
   the cr
  y
  stal, the layers of decavanadate groups, organic cations and water molecules stack up parallel to the (011) plane. The cohesion is provided by N-H&#183;&#183;&#183;O, O-H&#183;&#183;&#183;O hydrogen bonds and Van der Waals interactions leads to a three-dimensional structure. The absorbance spectrum measurement shows an optical band gap of 3.27 eV which allows us to conclude that this compound is a semiconductor material.
 
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Decavanadate</kwd><kwd> Synthesis</kwd><kwd> X-Ray Analysis</kwd><kwd> Crystal Structure</kwd><kwd>  Semiconductor Material</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>1. Introduction</title><p>Polyoxometalates (POMs) are a kind of inorganic clusters, which can be combined with organic ligands and metal ions to form supramolecular compounds. These groups have been extensively studied due to their potential applications in various fields such as catalysis [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.95508-ref1">1</xref>] and materials science [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.95508-ref2">2</xref>] . The size and the structure are two important criteria among others that determine the properties and hence the applications of these species.</p><p>Among the various types of POMs, decavanadate represents an important part of the group which has been studied extensively in the past decades because of their excellent catalysis properties [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.95508-ref3">3</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.95508-ref4">4</xref>] and versatile bioactivities [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.95508-ref5">5</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.95508-ref6">6</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.95508-ref7">7</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.95508-ref8">8</xref>] . In addition, the decavanadate anion [V<sub>10</sub>O<sub>28</sub>]<sup>6</sup><sup>−</sup> has been characterized by numerous cations for antibacterial, antidiabetes and catalytic activities [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.95508-ref9">9</xref>] - [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.95508-ref17">17</xref>] . Recently, organic decavanadates have been synthesized with the aim to understand their biological [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.95508-ref18">18</xref>] , magnetic [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.95508-ref19">19</xref>] , and optical properties [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.95508-ref20">20</xref>] .</p><p>Several decavanadate compounds containing organic cations have been synthesized such us: (C<sub>5</sub>H<sub>12</sub>N)<sub>9</sub>[HV<sub>10</sub>O<sub>28</sub>](NO<sub>3</sub>)<sub>4</sub> [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.95508-ref21">21</xref>] , (C<sub>7</sub>H<sub>10</sub>N)<sub>4</sub>[H<sub>2</sub>V<sub>10</sub>O<sub>28</sub>]∙2H<sub>2</sub>O [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.95508-ref22">22</xref>] , (C<sub>12</sub>H<sub>12</sub>N<sub>2</sub>)<sub>3</sub>(V<sub>10</sub>O<sub>28</sub>)∙2H<sub>2</sub>O [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.95508-ref23">23</xref>] , [C<sub>8</sub>NH<sub>20</sub>]<sub>9</sub>[H<sub>2</sub>V<sub>10</sub>O<sub>28</sub>][HV<sub>10</sub>O<sub>28</sub>]∙2∙13H<sub>2</sub>O [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.95508-ref24">24</xref>] .</p><p>In a continuation of these studies, a new decavanadate compound containing organic cations has been prepared.</p><p>In this paper, we report the synthesis, crystal structure, IR and UV-Vis spectroscopies of the novel decavanadate (C<sub>4</sub>N<sub>2</sub>H<sub>7</sub>)<sub>4</sub>(C<sub>6</sub>N<sub>2</sub>H<sub>10</sub>)V<sub>10</sub>O<sub>28</sub>∙2H<sub>2</sub>O.</p></sec><sec id="s2"><title>2. Experimental</title><sec id="s2_1"><title>2.1. Synthesis and Crystallization of 2-Amino-4-Picolinium, 2-Methylimidazolium Decavanadate Hydrate: (C<sub>4</sub>N<sub>2</sub>H<sub>7</sub>)<sub>4</sub>(C<sub>6</sub>N<sub>2</sub>H<sub>10</sub>)V<sub>10</sub>O<sub>28</sub>∙2H<sub>2</sub>O (1)</title><p>The compound (C<sub>4</sub>N<sub>2</sub>H<sub>7</sub>)<sub>4</sub>(C<sub>6</sub>N<sub>2</sub>H<sub>10</sub>)V<sub>10</sub>O<sub>28</sub>∙2H<sub>2</sub>O was prepared from a mixture of 0.321 g of vanadium oxide V<sub>2</sub>O<sub>5</sub>, 0.091 g of 2-methylimidazole (C<sub>4</sub>H<sub>6</sub>N<sub>2</sub>) and 0.057 g of 2-amino-4-picoline (C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>8</sub>N<sub>2</sub>) in water. The mixture obtained was stirred and heated for about 3 hours. Finally, the solution was allowed to stand at room temperature and after a week, single orange crystals suitable for ray diffraction analysis were obtained.</p></sec><sec id="s2_2"><title>2.2. X-Ray Diffraction Study</title><p>The collect of diffracted intensities was performed using an Enraf-Nonius CAD4 four-circle diffractometer with K<sub>α</sub> radiation of molybdenum (λ = 0.71067 &#197;). The structure was solved by direct method using the SHELXS-97 program [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.95508-ref25">25</xref>] and refined by the full-matrix least squares method on all F<sup>2</sup> data using the program SHELXL-2014 [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.95508-ref26">26</xref>] .</p><p>Anisotropic thermal parameters were used to refine all the non-hydrogen.</p><p>B atoms and the positions of the hydrogen atoms were calculated using the HFIX instruction.</p><p>Crystal data and details on data collection and refinement are summarized in <xref ref-type="table" rid="table1">Table 1</xref>.</p><p>DIAMOND [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.95508-ref27">27</xref>] package was used for molecular graphics. CIF file containing complete information about the structure of (1) was deposited with the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Center (CCDC 1908881). The file is freely available upon request from the following web site: https://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/data_request/cif.</p></sec><sec id="s2_3"><title>2.3. X-Ray Powder Diffraction Study of Compound (1)</title><p>The purity of phase (I) were checked by comparing, using the Origin software [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.95508-ref28">28</xref>] , the experimental diffractogram (λ<sub>Cu</sub> (Kα1) = 1.5406 &#197;) with the calculated diffractogram from single-crystal X-ray diffraction data, obtained using the VESTA program [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.95508-ref29">29</xref>] . The superposition of the two diffractograms (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref>) confirms the purity of the sythesized phase.</p><p><xref ref-type="table" rid="table2">Table 2</xref> groups the different peaks, their indications and their intensities.</p></sec><sec id="s2_4"><title>2.4. IR Spectra of Compound (1)</title><p>In <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref>, we present the IR spectrum of the compound (1) (Pellets with KBr, mg: analyte 2, KBr 250; Perkin-Elmer spectrometer) cm<sup>–1</sup>: 585, 608, 745, 830 ν(VO<sub>6</sub>), 970 ν(V=O), 1310 ν(C=C) and cycle vibrations, 1430 ν(C=N), 1610 δ(O-H), 1830, 1930, 2690 ν(C-H), ν(C-N), ν(N-H) and ν(C-C), 2905 hydrogen bonds, 3095, 3145, 3365 ν(O-H).</p></sec><sec id="s2_5"><title>2.5. UV-Vis Spectra of Compound (1)</title><p>The UV-Vis spectra were recorded on a T70/T70 + UV-V is spectrophotometer in the range 200 - 700 nm (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3</xref>). The UV-Vis spectrum of 1 displays two intense absorption bands. The band observed at 300 nm can be assigned to charge-transfer (CT) transitions of the type π(O) → d(V) and the band at 494.64 nm can be explained the color (orange) of crystals of the title compound. The band gap is estimated by extrapolation of the linear part. The absorbance spectrum measurement shows an optical band gap of 3.27 eV which allows us to conclude that this compound is a semiconductor material (the gap energy is less than 4 eV).</p></sec></sec><sec id="s3"><title>3. Results and Discussion</title><p>The formula unit is composed of one decavanadate [V<sub>10</sub>O<sub>28</sub>]<sup>6−</sup> anion, four 2-methylimidazolium (C<sub>4</sub>N<sub>2</sub>H<sub>7</sub>)<sup>+</sup> cations, one 2-amino-4-picolinium (C<sub>6</sub>N<sub>2</sub>H<sub>10</sub>)<sup>2+</sup> cation and two water molecules (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig4">Figure 4</xref>).</p><p>Each decavanadate cluster is composed by ten distorted edge-sharing VO<sub>6</sub> octahedra. In fact, the distortion indexes vary between 7.6% and 9.9% [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.95508-ref30">30</xref>] (<xref ref-type="table" rid="table3">Table 3</xref>). The vanadium is in the +5 oxidation. This result was confirmed by the bond valence sums calculations (<xref ref-type="table" rid="table3">Table 3</xref>) according to Brown [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.95508-ref31">31</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.95508-ref32">32</xref>] (S = Σsi = Σexp[(R<sub>0 </sub>− R<sub>i</sub>)/B]. The V-O<sub>terminal</sub> bond distances range between 1.593(4) and 1.621(4) &#197;. The V-O<sub>2b</sub> bonds are in the range of 1.678(4) and 2.071(4) &#197;. The</p><table-wrap id="table1" ><label><xref ref-type="table" rid="table1">Table 1</xref></label><caption><title> Crystallographic characteristics, the X-ray data collection and structure-refinement parameters for (C<sub>4</sub>N<sub>2</sub>H<sub>7</sub>)<sub>4</sub>(C<sub>6</sub>N<sub>2</sub>H<sub>10</sub>)V<sub>10</sub>O<sub>28</sub>∙2H<sub>2</sub>O</title></caption><table><tbody><thead><tr><th align="center" valign="middle" >System, sp. gr., Z</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >Triclinic, P-1, 2</th></tr></thead><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >a, b, c, &#197;</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >11.200(5), 12.056(9), 20.511(7)</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >α, β, γ deg</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >73.40(4), 84.67(3), 63.51(5)</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >V, &#197;<sup>3</sup></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2373.58(1)</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >D<sub>x</sub>, g∙cm<sup>−3</sup></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2.01</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >Radiation, λ, &#197;</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >MoK<sub>α</sub>, 0.71073</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >μ, mm<sup>−1</sup></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.976</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >T, K</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >298(2)</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >Sample size, mm</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0.25 &#215; 0.19 &#215; 0.15</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >Diffractometer</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >ENRAF-NONIUS CAD4</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >Scan mode</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >ω/2θ</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >Absorption correction</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Psi-scan</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >T<sub>min</sub>, T<sub>max</sub></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0.8027,0.9979</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >θ<sub>max</sub>, deg</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >26.984</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >h, k, l ranges</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >–14 ≤ h ≤ 1, –15 ≤ k ≤ 14, –26 ≤ l ≤ 26</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >Number of reflections: measured/unique R<sub>int</sub><sub> </sub> Number of reflections with I &gt; 2σ (I)</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >11024/10252 (N1) 0.029 5525 (N2)</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >Number of refined parameters</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >662</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >R1/wR2 relative to N1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0.084/0.181</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >R1/wR2 relative to N2</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0.059/0.162</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >S</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.021</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >∆ρ<sub>max</sub>/∆ρ<sub>min</sub>, e∙&#197;<sup>−3</sup></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.325/-0.923</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >Programs</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >SHELXS-97 [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.95508-ref25">25</xref>] , SHELXL-2014 [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.95508-ref26">26</xref>] , DIAMOND [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.95508-ref27">27</xref>]</td></tr></tbody></table></table-wrap><table-wrap id="table2" ><label><xref ref-type="table" rid="table2">Table 2</xref></label><caption><title> Indexation of DRX diffractogram of compound (1)</title></caption><table><tbody><thead><tr><th align="center" valign="middle" >h</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >k</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >l</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >2θ (˚)</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >I/I<sub>0</sub></th><th align="center" valign="middle" >h</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >k</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >l</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >2θ (˚)</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >I/I<sub>0</sub></th></tr></thead><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >0</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >8.46927</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >100*</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >16.41792</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.53332</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >8.82155</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >50.96973</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >3</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >16.45854</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >3.72334</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >0</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >8.99789</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >40.19615</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >17.01392</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >7.9014</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >9.31284</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >40.05874</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >17.4696</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.52741</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >10.06554</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >3.55709</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−3</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >17.87741</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2.06015</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >0</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >10.6696</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >24.81571</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−3</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >17.93931</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2.45911</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >11.06584</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >20.26129</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >18.08847</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.99497</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >11.39276</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >3.35978</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >v2</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >19.55503</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.80471</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−2</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >12.3561</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >9.39765</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >20.20981</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >3.97823</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >12.86607</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >10.83167</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >4</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >20.44567</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.96777</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >15.38431</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.95101</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >4</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >22.8685</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.89693</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >15.49405</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >3.86325</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >3</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >23.18129</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >8.72159</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−2</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >15.81212</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >3.41893</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >3</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >24.91429</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >5.91526</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−3</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >15.8584</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >5.8791</td><td align="center" valign="middle" ></td><td align="center" valign="middle" ></td><td align="center" valign="middle" ></td><td align="center" valign="middle" ></td><td align="center" valign="middle" ></td></tr></tbody></table></table-wrap><p>*Only the most significant peaks are considered.</p><p>V-O<sub>3b</sub> bond distances range from 1.929(4) and 2.059(4) &#197;. The V-O<sub>6b</sub> bond lengths are within 2.061(4) and 2.374(4) &#197;. The V-V distances are in the range 3.051(1) to 3.120(1) &#197;.</p><p>The 2-methylimidazolium (C<sub>4</sub>N<sub>2</sub>H<sub>7</sub>)<sup>+</sup> and 2-amino-4-picolinium (C<sub>6</sub>N<sub>2</sub>H<sub>10</sub>)<sup>2+</sup> cations forming two different alternating layers. The first layer is composed by 2-amino-4-picolinium (C<sub>6</sub>N<sub>2</sub>H<sub>10</sub>)<sup>2+</sup> and 2-methylimidazolium (C<sub>4</sub>N<sub>2</sub>H<sub>7</sub>)<sup>+</sup> cations. The second layer is formed by 2-methylimidazolium (C<sub>4</sub>N<sub>2</sub>H<sub>7</sub>)<sup>+</sup> cations (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5">Figure 5</xref>). The bond lengths of C-C and C-N are from 1.353(1) to 1.502(1) &#197; and from</p><table-wrap id="table3" ><label><xref ref-type="table" rid="table3">Table 3</xref></label><caption><title> Distortion, indexes ID and BVS calculations for (C<sub>4</sub>N<sub>2</sub>H<sub>7</sub>)<sub>4</sub>(C<sub>6</sub>N<sub>2</sub>H<sub>10</sub>)V<sub>10</sub>O<sub>28</sub>∙2H<sub>2</sub>O</title></caption><table><tbody><thead><tr><th align="center" valign="middle" >Octahedra</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >V1O<sub>6</sub></th><th align="center" valign="middle" >V2O<sub>6</sub></th><th align="center" valign="middle" >V3O<sub>6</sub></th><th align="center" valign="middle" >V4O<sub>6</sub></th><th align="center" valign="middle" >V5O<sub>6</sub></th></tr></thead><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >BVS ID</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Σsi = 4.95 ID = 7.6%</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Σsi = 4.95 ID = 9.2%</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Σsi = 4.99 ID = 9.1%</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Σsi = 4.94 ID = 9.1%</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Σsi = 5.00 ID = 9.1%</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >Octahedra</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >V6O<sub>6</sub></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >V7O<sub>6</sub></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >V8O<sub>6</sub></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >V9O<sub>6</sub></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >V10O<sub>6</sub></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >BVS ID</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Σsi = 4.94 ID = 7.9%</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Σsi = 5.00 ID = 8.8%</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Σsi = 4.90 ID = 9.9%</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Σsi = 4.96 ID = 8.7%</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Σsi = 5.00 ID = 9.1%</td></tr></tbody></table></table-wrap><p>1.292(1) to 1.511(1) &#197;, respectively. These bond lengths are in agreement with those reported in literature [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.95508-ref33">33</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.95508-ref34">34</xref>] .</p><p>Decavanadate groups, organic cations and water molecules form infinite zigzag chains viewed along the c axis as shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6</xref>. The cohesion of these layers by N-H&#183;&#183;&#183;O, O-H&#183;&#183;&#183;O hydrogen bonds and Van der Waals interactions leads to a three-dimensional structure.</p><p>The decavanadate groups form hydrogen bonds on the one hand with the water molecules and on the other hand with the organic molecules. Similarly organic cations form hydrogen bonds with oxygen atoms of V 10 O 28 6 − groups and</p><p>water molecules (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig7">Figure 7</xref>). In this structure, five hydrogen bonds are strong with a range of D---A bond lengths from 2.677 to 2.876 &#197; and the other five are weak with the D---A bond lengths vary from 3.112 to 3.350 &#197; according to Brown [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.95508-ref35">35</xref>] (<xref ref-type="table" rid="table4">Table 4</xref>).</p><table-wrap id="table4" ><label><xref ref-type="table" rid="table4">Table 4</xref></label><caption><title> Hydrogen bonds in crystal of (1)</title></caption><table><tbody><thead><tr><th align="center" valign="middle" >D-H…A</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >D-H (&#197;)</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >H…A (&#197;)</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >D…A (&#197;)</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >D-H…A (˚)</th></tr></thead><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >OW1-H27....O2</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0.958</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.919</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2.860</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >166.78</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >OW1-H28….O23<sup>i</sup></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0.959</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2.047</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2.772</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >131.02</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >OW1-H28 ....O25<sup>i</sup></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0.959</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2.500</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >3.269</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >137.19</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >OW2-H30....O15</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0.930</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.984</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2.854</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >155.13</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >N1-H5….O3</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0.860</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.875</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2.677</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >154.52</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >N2-H6A….O6<sup>ii</sup></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0.890</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2.506</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >3.186</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >133.60</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >N2-H6A….O10<sup>iii</sup></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0.890</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2.506</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >3.186</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >133.60</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >N2-H6B….O12</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0.890</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2.441</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2.876</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >110.55</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >N5-H16….O9<sup>IVi</sup></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0.860</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2.384</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >3.112</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >142.69</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >N8-H21….O9<sup>Vi</sup></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0.860</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2.428</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >3.230</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >155.52</td></tr></tbody></table></table-wrap><p>Symmetry codes: (i) –x + 1, −y + 1, −z; (ii) −x, −y + 1, −z + 1; (iii) x − 1, y, z; (ivi) –x + 1, −y + 1, −z + 1; (vi) x−1, y, z.</p></sec><sec id="s4"><title>4. Conclusion and Perspectives</title><p>A novel decavanadate has been synthesized and characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction, IR and UV-Vis spectroscopies. The decavanadates anions, organic cations and the water molecules are connected through N-H&#183;&#183;&#183;O, O-H&#183;&#183;&#183;O hydrogen bonds and Van der Waals interactions to form a three-dimensional structure. In perspective, biological analyzes will be carried out, as part of a project with the Institute of Pasteur of Tunis, to better understand the mode of action of vanadium crystals developed and therefore evaluate their effect on the germination of spores. Germination tests are also very useful for evaluating the mechanism of action of the antifungal compounds.</p></sec><sec id="s5"><title>Acknowledgements and Funding Information</title><p>Financial support from the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Tunisia is gratefully acknowledged.</p></sec><sec id="s6"><title>Conflicts of Interest</title><p>The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this paper.</p></sec><sec id="s7"><title>Cite this paper</title><p>Louati, M., Ksiksi, R., Jouffret, L. and Zid, M.F. (2019) Preparation, Crystal Structure and Spectroscopy Characterization of Vanadium(V) Complex, 2-Amino-4-Picolinium, 2-Me-thylimidazolium Decavanadate Hydrate (C<sub>4</sub>N<sub>2</sub>H<sub>7</sub>)<sub>4</sub>(C<sub>6</sub>N<sub>2</sub>H<sub>10</sub>)V<sub>10</sub>O<sub>28</sub>∙2H<sub>2</sub>O. 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