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Tahir Mehmood1, Rajesh S Bhosale1, J Prakasha Reddy1
1Department of Chemistry, School of Sciences, Indrashil University, Rajpur, Gujarat, 382740, India.
Abstract:
The title compound, (C6H8N)2[CuCl4], crystallizes in the monoclinic space group I2/c. The coordination around the copper atom is a distorted tetra-hedron. The 2-methyl-pyridinium ion (C6H8N+) inter-acts with the tetra-chloro-cuprate anion through N-H⋯Cl and C-H(phen-yl)⋯Cl contacts, forming a hydrogen-bonded layer-like structure. The supra-molecular structure is further stabilized by C-H(meth-yl)⋯Cl inter-actions between the layers.
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