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Ibrahim Uçar1, Ahmet Bulut, Orhan Büyükgüngör
1Department of Physics, Arts and Sciences Faculty, Ondokuz Mayis University, 55139 Samsun, Turkey. iucar@omu.edu.tr
Abstract:
The copper(II) centre in the mononuclear title complex, [Cu(C(7)H(3)NO(4))(C(14)H(12)N(2))].3H(2)O, is surrounded by one bidentate 2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline (dmphen) ligand and one tridentate pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylate ligand, and exhibits a distorted square-pyramidal geometry. The crystal packing involves both hydrogen-bonding and pi-pi interactions. The solvent water molecules link monomers to one another through hydrogen-bonding interactions, forming ladder-like chains in the bc plane. Face-to-face and slipped pi-pi interactions also occur between dmphen rings of neighboring molecules and are responsible for interchain packing.
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