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Shintaro Kodama1, Kazuki Bunno1, Akihiro Nomoto1
1Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka, Prefecture University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Nakaku, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan.
Abstract:
The title di-chloro-cobalt(II) complex, trans-[CoCl2(1)2] [1 = 8-(benzyl-sulfanyl)-quinoline, C16H13NS], has a central CoII atom (site symmetry ) that exhibits a distorted octa-hedral coordination geometry and is coordinated by two N and two S atoms from the bidentate N,S-ligand (1) situated in an equatorial plane and two Cl atoms in the axial positions. Complexes are linked by weak inter-molecular C-H⋯π inter-actions between the 8-(benzyl-sulfanyl)-quinoline ligands, forming a chain extending along the a-axis direction.
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