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Aqua-(2,2'-bipyrimidine-κN,N')(succin-ato-κO,O)copper(II) dihydrate
Xi-Jun Ke1, Dong-Sheng Li, Jun Zhao
1College of Mechanical and Material Engineering, Functional Materials Research Institute, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
In the crystal structure of the title compound, [Cu(C(4)H(4)O(4))(C(8)H(6)N(4))(H(2)O)]·2H(2)O, the Cu(II) atom is chelated by a 2,2'-bipyrimidine (bpm) ligand and a succinate anion in the basal plane; a water mol-ecule in the apical position completes the slightly distorted square-pyramidal coordination geometry. Another carboxyl-ate O atom from an adjacent complex is located in the opposite apical direction, with a Cu⋯O distance of 2.706 (3) Å, and is not considered as a bridging atom. Extensive O-H⋯O and O-H⋯N hydrogen bonding is present in the crystal structure.
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