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Crystal structure of poly[tetra-μ-cyanido-ethanol-bis(2-iodo-pyrazine)-digold(I)iron(II)]
Bin Fei1, Olesia I Kucheriv2, Inna I Tokmenko2,3
1School of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, 210094 Nanjing, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
In the title polymeric complex, [Au2Fe(CN)4(C4H3IN2)2(C2H6O)] , the FeII cation is coordinated by two iodo-pyrazine mol-ecules, one ethanol mol-ecule and three di-cyano-aurate anions in a distorted N5O octa-hedral geometry. In the crystal, the di-cyano-aurate anions bridge the FeII cations to form polymeric chains propagating along the b-axis direction. Stabilization of the crystal structure is provided by O-H⋯N hydrogen bonds and π-π stacking between parallel iodo-pyrazine rings of neighbouring chains, the centroid-centroid distances being 3.654 (10) and 3.658 (9) Å.
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