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Construction and Systematical Symmetric Studies of a Series of Supramolecular Clusters with Binary or Ternary Ammonium Triphenylacetates
Published on: February 15, 2016
Crystal structure of bis-(ethyl-enedi-thio)-tetra-thia-fulvalenium μ2-acetato-bis-[tri-bromido-rhenate(III)]
Alexander A Golichenko1, Andrey V Kravchenko2, Irina V Omelchenko3
1Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Ukrainian State University of Chemical Technology, Gagarin Ave. 8, Dnipropetrovsk 49005, Ukraine.
Abstract:
The asymmetric unit of the title salt, (C10H8S8)[Re2Br6(CH3COO)]·0.5C2H3Cl3, contains one bis-(ethyl-enedi-thio)-tetra-thia-fulvalene (ET) radical cation, one μ2-acetato-bis-[tri-bromido-rhenate(III)] anion and a 1,1,2-tri-chloro-ethane mol-ecule with half-occupancy disordered about a twofold rotation axis. The tetra-thia-fulvalene fragment adopts an almost planar configuration typical of the ET radical cation. The C atoms of both ethyl-enedi-thio fragments in the cation are disordered over two orientations with occupancy factors 0.65:0.35 and 0.77:0.23. In the anion, six Br atoms and a μ2-acetate ligand form a strongly distorted cubic O2Br6 coordination polyhedron around the Re2 dinuclear centre. In the crystal, centrosymmetrically related ET cations and Re2O2Br6 anions are linked into dimers by π-π stacking inter-actions [centroid-to-centroid distance = 3.826 (8) Å] and by pairs of additional Re⋯Br contacts [3.131 (3) Å], respectively. The dimers are further packed into a three-dimensional network by non-directional inter-ionic electrostatic forces and by C-H⋯Br and C-H⋯S hydrogen bonds. The disordered 1,1,2-tri-chloro-ethane mol-ecules occupy solvent-accessible channels along the b axis.
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