I. INTRODUCTION
Calcium(II)–naproxen complex (Figure 1) is a new potential anti-inflammatory drug synthesized recently, which is a white powder at room temperature. Metal complexes of the anti-inflammatory drug naproxen as auxiliary ligand have been widely studied since they were found to be more active and desirable drugs than their parent drugs themselves (Sharma et al., Reference Sharma, Singla and Dhawan2003; Abuhijleh and Khalaf, Reference Abuhijleh and Khalaf2010). The title compound is also expected to have some biological activities and medicinal value.
Presently, the crystal structure of calcium(II)–naproxen complex has not been reported.
II. EXPERIMENTAL
A. Sample preparation
Sodium naproxen, prepared by adding naproxen (2.3 g or 0.01 mol) to a 100 ml ethanolic solution of NaOH (0.4 g or 0.01 mol) and drying under vacuum at 40 °C, was dissolved in water (100 ml). To it, CaCl2 (0.56 g) was added with constant stirring. The precipitates of the calcium(II)–naproxen complex (final yield, 76%), thus, formed were filtered, washed with cold water, and dried under vacuum to a constant weight. The sample was characterized by UV–vis, FTIR (KBr, cm-1): ν(O–H): 3415, νasy(COO): 1604, νsy(COO): 1395, ν(Ca–O): 484; TG-DTA: mass change: -6.76%, melting point: 137°C; mass spectrometry [the UV–vis; FTIR and TG-DTA spectra are as supplementary material (Fig. 1S–3S)].
B. Diffraction data collection and reduction
The X-ray powder diffraction measurements were performed on an X'Pert PRO diffractometer (PANalytical Co., Ltd., the Netherlands) equipped with a PIXcel one-dimensional (1D) detection system and CuKα radiation (generator setting, 40 kV and 40 mA). The diffraction data were recorded at room temperature with a step size of 0.013 13°2θ within 5° to 50° in 2θ. Data evaluation was mostly conducted using the Reflex module in the software package Material Studio 4.2 (Accelrys Co., Ltd., San Diego, CA) in the State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering (Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China).
The powder diffraction pattern was pretreated by subtracting the background, stripping off Kα 2 peaks, and smoothing. Indexing was carried out using peak positions obtained from the powder diffraction profiles by the X-Cell method, and then the indexing result was refined using Pawley refinement (Harris, Reference Harris2012; Pan et al., Reference Pan, Guo, Duan, Cheng and Li2012). MC/SA search algorithm in Powder Solve package (Engel et al., Reference Engel, Wilke, König, Harris and Leusen1999; Wu et al., Reference Wu, Tang, Pan, Cheng and Li2013) was used to constantly adjust the conformation, position, and orientation of the molecular groups in the unit cell, which was selected by the indexing step, in order to reduce the difference between the calculated and the measured diffraction data.
III. RESULTS
The experimental powder diffraction pattern is depicted in Figure 2. Indexing results show that calcium(II)–naproxen complex is monoclinic with space group C2 and unit-cell parameters: a = 36.918(2) Å, b = 5.655(6) Å, c = 12.505(6) Å, β = 91.263(2)°, unit-cell volume V = 2610.47 Å3, space group C2, and Z = 4 (Table I). After Pawley refinement, the unit-cell parameters of calcium(II)–naproxen complex were solved. All lines of powder data were indexed and consistent with the C2 space group.
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS AND METHODS
The supplementary material for this article can be found at http://www.journals.cambridge.org/PDJ.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We acknowledge financial support by the National Development and Reform Commission and Education of China (Grant No. 2014BW011).