(Benzoato-?O)bis-(1,10-phenanthroline-?N,N')copper(II) chloride benzoic acid disolvate.

ABSTRACT: In the title complex, [Cu(C(7)H(5)O(2))(C(12)H(8)N(2))(2)]Cl·2C(6)H(5)CO-OH, the Cu(II) ion is coordinated by one carboxyl-ate O atom from a benzoate anion and four N atoms from two phenantroline ligands in a distorted five-coordinate trigonal-bipyramidal CuON(4) chromophore. The Cu(2+) and the Cl(-) ion are imposed by a twofold rotation axiss which also bisects the equally disordered benzoate anion. In the crystal, the mol-ecules are assembled into chains along [010] by C-H?Cl, O-H?Cl and C-H?O hydrogen-bonding inter-actions. The resulting chains are further connected into two-dimensional supra-molecular layers parallel to [100] by inter-chain ??? stacking inter-actions [centroid-centroid distance = 3.823?(5)?Å] between the phenanthroline ligands and the benzoic acid mol-ecules, and by C-H?O hydrogen-bonding inter-actions. Strong ??? stacking inter-actions between adjacent phenantroline ligands [3.548?(4)?Å] assemble the layers into a three-dimensional supra-molecular architecture.

SUBMITTER: Huang WX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2979027 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature