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[DPEPhosbcpCu]PF6: A General and Broadly Applicable Copper-Based Photoredox Catalyst
Published on: May 20, 2019
Diaqua-dichlorido[5-(3-pyridinio)tetra-zolato-κN]copper(II) dihydrate
1Ordered Matter Science Research Center, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
The title compound, [CuCl(2)(C(6)H(5)N(5))(2)(H(2)O)(2)]·2H(2)O, was synthesized by hydro-thermal reaction of CuCl(2) with 3-(2H-tetra-zol-5-yl)pyridine. The Cu(II) cation, located on an inversion center, is coordinated by two Cl(-) ions, two N atoms from two 5-(3-pyridinio)tetra-zolate zwitterions and two O atoms from two water mol-ecules in a distorted octa-hedral geometry. In the crystal, mol-ecules are linked into a two-dimensional sheet parallel to (001) by N-H⋯N, O-H⋯N, O-H⋯O and O-H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds involving the pyridinium N atom, the Cl atoms and the coordinated and free water mol-ecules. The latter are disordered over two positions in a 0.54:0.46 ratio.
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