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Construction and Systematical Symmetric Studies of a Series of Supramolecular Clusters with Binary or Ternary Ammonium Triphenylacetates
Published on: February 15, 2016
Tris[2-meth-oxy-6-(4-methyl-phenyl-iminio-meth-yl)phenolato-κO,O']tris-(thio-cyanato-κN)neodymium(III)
Jia-Lu Liu1, Jin-Bei Shen, Guo-Liang Zhao
1Zhejiang Key Laboratory for Reactive Chemistry on Solid Surfaces, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang 321004, People's Republic of China, and College of Chemistry and Life Science, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
In the title compound, [Nd(NCS)(3)(C(15)H(15)NO(2))(3)], the Nd(III) ion is coordinated by three thio-cyanate anions [Nd-N = 2.489 (8)-2.530 (7) Å] and six O atoms [Nd-O = 2.375 (4)-2.843 (5) Å] from three zwitterionic 2-meth-oxy-6-(4-methyl-phenyl-iminiometh-yl)phenolate ligands in a tricapped trigonal-prismatic geometry. Intra-molecular N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds occur. The crystal packing exhibits weak inter-molecular C-H⋯S hydrogen bonds, π-π inter-actions with a distance of 3.904 (7) Å between the centroids of the aromatic rings, and voids of 101 Å(3).
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