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Ali Ourari1, Chahinaz Zoubeidi1, Sofiane Bouacida2
1Laboratoire d'Electrochimie, d'Ingénierie Moléculaire et de Catalyse Redox (LEIMCR), Faculté des Sciences de l'Ingénieur, Université Farhat Abbas, Sétif 19000, Algeria.
Abstract:
In the title compound, [Cu(C10H11BrNO)2], the asymmetric unit consists of one-half of the mol-ecule, the other half being generated by an inversion centre. Hence the Cu(II) cation is symmetrically coordinated by two bidentate Schiff base anions in a slightly distorted square-planar environment with Cu-O and Cu-N bond lengths of 1.8786 (19) and 2.009 (2) Å, respectively. In the crystal, individual mol-ecules are packed in alternating zigzag layers parallel to (001). Weak C-H⋯π inter-actions exist between the mol-ecules.
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