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A Study of the Complexation of MercuryII with Dicysteinyl Tetrapeptides by Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry
Published on: January 8, 2016
Crystal structure of {bis-[(1H-benzimid-azol-2-yl-κN (3))meth-yl]sulfane}dichloridomercury(II)
Mehdi Bouchouit1, Saida Benzerka2, Abdelmalek Bouraiou1
1Unité de Recherche de Chimie de l'Environnement et Moléculaire Structurale CHEMS, Université Frères Montouri, Constantine 25000, Algeria.
Abstract:
In the asymmetric unit of the title compound, [HgCl2(C16H14N4S)], the Hg(II) cation is linked to two Cl atoms and two imidazole N atoms of the chelating bis-[(1H-benzimidazol-2-yl)meth-yl]sulfane ligand, forming a slightly distorted tetra-hedral environment. The substitued imidazole rings of the ligand are almost perfectly planar [with maximum deviations of 0.017 (3) and 0.012 (3) Å] and form a dihedral angle of 42.51 (5)°. The crystal packing can be described as alternating layers parallel to (010). In this arrangement, N-H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds between the N-H groups of the benzimidazole moieties and chloride ligands are responsible for the formation of the chain-like packing pattern along [010] exhibiting a C(6) graph-set motif.
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