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Pyridinium bis-(pyridine-κN)tetra-kis-(thio-cyanato-κN)ferrate(III)
Sergii I Shylin1, Il'ya A Gural'skiy, Matti Haukka
1Department of Chemistry, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Volodymyrska 64/13, 01601 Kyiv, Ukraine.
Abstract:
In the title compound, (C5H6N)[Fe(NCS)4(C5H5N)2], the Fe(III) ion is coordinated by four thio-cyanate N atoms and two pyridine N atoms in a trans arrangement, forming an FeN6 polyhedron with a slightly distorted octa-hedral geometry. Charge balance is achieved by one pyridinium cation bound to the complex anion via N-H⋯S hydrogen bonding. The asymmetric unit consists of one Fe(III) cation, four thio-cyanate anions, two coordinated pyridine mol-ecules and one pyridinium cation. The structure exhibits π-π inter-actions between pyridine rings [centroid-centroid distances = 3.7267 (2), 3.7811 (2) and 3.8924 (2) Å]. The N atom and a neighboring C atom of the pyridinium cation are statistically disordered with an occupancy ratio of 0.58 (2):0.42 (2).
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