Trans-Carbonyl-chloridobis[diphen-yl(4-vinyl-phen-yl)phosphane-?P]rhodium(I).

ABSTRACT: In the title compound, trans-[RhCl(C(20)H(17)P)(2)(CO)], the Rh(I) atom is situated on a center of symmetry, resulting in a statistical 1:1 disorder of the chloride [Rh-Cl = 2.383?(2)?Å] and carbonyl [Rh-C = 1.752?(7)?Å] ligands. The distorted trans square-planar environment is completed by two P atoms [Rh-P = 2.3251?(4)?Å] from two diphen-yl(4-vinyl-phen-yl)phosphane ligands. The vinyl group is disordered over two sets of sites in a 0.668?(10):0.332?(10) ratio. The crystal packing exhibits weak C-H?Cl and C-H?O hydrogen bonds and ?-? inter-actions between the phenyl rings of neighbouring mol-ecules, with a centroid-centroid distance of 3.682?(2)?Å.

SUBMITTER: Ogutu H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3344302 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature