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From Molecules to Materials: Engineering New Ionic Liquid Crystals Through Halogen Bonding
Published on: March 24, 2018
Crystal structure of chlorido-penta-kis(dimethyl sulfoxide-κO)chromium(III) dichloride
Kyung-Sun Son1, Jeong Oh Woo1, Namhun Kim1
1Department of Chemistry, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 305-764, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
In the complex cation of the title salt, [CrCl(C2H6OS)5]Cl2, the Cr(III) ion is coordinated by one chloride ligand and five O atoms from dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) ligands, leading to a slightly distorted octa-hedral coordination environment [O-Cr-O angles range from 86.69 (16) to 92.87 (16)°]. In the crystal, complex cations are arranged in hexa-gonally packed rows parallel to [010], with the chloride counter-anions situated in between. The inter-actions between cations and anions are mainly ionic in nature.
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