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Crystal structure of bis-{1-[(E)-(2-meth-oxy-phen-yl)diazen-yl]naphthalen-2-olato-κ(3) O,N (2),O'}copper(II)
Souheyla Chetioui1, Noudjoud Hamdouni2, Djamil-Azzeddine Rouag1
1Unité de Recherche de Chimie de l'Environnement et Moléculaire Structurale (CHEMS), Faculté des Sciences Exactes, Département de Chimie, Université Constantine 1, Constantine 25000, Algeria.
Abstract:
The title complex, [Cu(C17H13N2O2)2], crystallizes with two independent mol-ecules in the asymmetric unit. Each Cu(II) atom has a distorted ocahedral coordination environment defined by two N atoms and four O atoms from two tridentate 1-[(E)-(2-meth-oxy-phen-yl)diazen-yl]naphthalen-2-olate ligands. In the crystal, the two mol-ecules are linked via weak C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds which in turn stack parallel to [010]. A region of disordered electron density, most probably disordered methanol solvent molecules, was corrected for using the SQUEEZE routine in PLATON [Spek (2015). Acta Cryst. C71, 9-18]. Their formula mass and unit-cell characteristics were not taken into account during refinement.
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