Bis[2,6-bis-(benzimidazol-2-yl)pyridine-κ3N,N',N'']nickel(II) bis-(tri-fluoro-methane-sulfonate) diethyl ether
Sarah E Ruiz1, Hadi D Arman2, Rafael A Adrian1
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas 78209, USA.
Abstract:
In the title complex, [Ni(C19H13N5)2](CF3SO3)2·(CH3CH2)2O, the central NiII atom is sixfold coordinated by three nitro-gen atoms of each 2,6-bis-(2-benzimidazol-yl)pyridine ligand in a distorted octa-hedral geometry with two tri-fluoro-methane-sulfonate ions and a mol-ecule of diethyl ether completing the outer coordination sphere of the complex. Hydrogen bonding contributes to the organization of the asymmetric units in columns along the a axis generating a porous supra-molecular structure. The structure was refined as a two-component twin with a refined BASF value of 0.4104 (13).
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