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J Govindaraj1, S Thirumurugan2, D Snehalatha Reddy2
1Department of Physics, Pachaiyappa's College for Men, Kanchipuram 631 501, India.
Abstract:
The title compound, [ZnCl2(C8H11N)2], was synthesized by the reaction of zinc dichloride and 4-ethyl-aniline. The Zn(2+) cation is coordinated by two Cl(-) anions and the N atoms of two 4-ethyl-aniline ligands, forming a distorted Zn(N2Cl2) tetra-hedron. The dihedral angle between the two benzene rings is 85.3 (2)° The Zn atom lies on a twofold rotation axis. The ethyl substituents are disordered over two sets of sites in a 0.74 (2):0.26 (2) ratio. In the crystal, N-H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds link the mol-ecules into sheets perpendicular to the a axis. C-H⋯Cl inter-actions also occur.
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