Synthesis, Crystal Structure and Antibacterial Evaluation of Di-μ-chlorido-bis({2-[(4-methoxyphenyl)- iminomethyl ]pyridine-κ2N,N']Mercury(II)

New coordination polymer of [hglcl2]n (1) with hgcl2 and schiff base bidentate ligand (4-methoxyphenyl) pyridine-2yl methyleneamine (l) was prepared and structurally characterized. inthe 1d network structure of 1, the mecury (ii) ion adopts an hgn2cl3 distorted square pyramidgeometry. in this complex, one of the chlorine acts as bridging ligand connecting two adjacentmercury(ii) ions while, the l ligand is coordinated to mercury(ii)ion in a cyclic-bidentate fashionforming an five-membered metallocyclic ring. coordination compounds1 has been characterized byinfrared spectroscopy, uv-visible spectroscopy, elemental analyses and single-crystal x-raydiffraction. the compound crystallizes in the monoclinic space group p 21/c with a = 9.3053(17), b= 7.1125(13), c = 20.708(4), and β = 80.208(4)°. the antibacterial activities of the complex, ligandand metal salt were tested against gram-positive bacteria staphylococcus aureus and gramnegativebacteria escherichia coli studied by disk diffusion method.