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Crystal structure of bis-{μ-4,4'-[1,3-phenyl-enebis(-oxy)]dibenzoato-κ(4) O,O':O'',O'''}bis[(1,10-phenanthroline-κ(2)
Ya-Ping Li1, Li-Ying Han2, Julia Ming3
1Department of Ophthalmology, The Second Hospital of Jilin University, 218 Ziqiang Street, Changchun 130041, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
Two 4,4'-[1,3-phenyl-enebis(-oxy)]dibenzoate anions bridge two 1,10-phenanthroline-chelated Zn(II) cations about a center of inversion to generate the dinuclear title compound, [Zn2(C20H12O6)2(C12H8N2)2]·2H2O. The geometry about the Zn(II) atom is a distorted octa-hedron. In the crystal, the mol-ecules are connected by classical O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, weak C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds and C-H⋯π inter-actions, forming a three dimensional network. π-π stacking is also observed between aromatic rings of adjacent mol-ecules, centroid-centroid distances are 3.753 (2), 3.5429 (16) and 3.5695 (17) Å.
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