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Crystal structure of chlorido-[1-(4-nitro-phen-yl)thio-urea-κS]bis-(tri-phenyl-phosphane-κP)copper(I)
Arunpatcha Nimthong-Roldán1, Nichakan Promsuwhan2, Walailak Puetpaiboon2
1Department of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
Abstract:
The mononuclear mixed-ligand title complex, [CuCl(C7H7N3O2S)(C18H15P)2], displays a distorted tetra-hedral coordination sphere around the CuI atom, with two P atoms from two tri-phenyl-phosphane mol-ecules, one terminal S atom from a 1-(4-nitro-phen-yl)thio-urea mol-ecule and a chloride ion as ligands. An intra-molecular N-H⋯Cl hydrogen bond stabilizes the mol-ecular conformation [graph-set motif R22(6)]. In the crystal, further N-H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds connect individual mol-ecules into zigzag chains parallel to [001]. The chains are linked by weak C-H⋯O hydrogen-bonding inter-actions into a three-dimensional network.
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