Tetra-μ-acetato-κ8O:O′-bis[(3,5-dimethyl-1H-pyrazole-κN2)copper(II)]

The dinuclear centrosymmetric title compound, [Cu2(CH3CO2)4(C5H8N2)2], has a distorted square-pyramidal coordination geometry around each CuII atom in which four O atoms from the bridging acetate ligands form the basal plane while two N atoms from the pyrazole ligands occupy the apical positions. Th...

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Main Authors: Juanita van Wyk, Bernard Omondi, James Darkwa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Union of Crystallography 2011-09-01
Series:Acta Crystallographica Section E
Online Access:http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S1600536811032600
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Summary:The dinuclear centrosymmetric title compound, [Cu2(CH3CO2)4(C5H8N2)2], has a distorted square-pyramidal coordination geometry around each CuII atom in which four O atoms from the bridging acetate ligands form the basal plane while two N atoms from the pyrazole ligands occupy the apical positions. The crystal has two half molecules in the asymmetric unit with a Cu...Cu distance of 2.6762 (4) Å. Disorder was found for two O atoms and two C atoms of one acetate ligand and refined with occupancies of 0.265 (7) and 0.735 (7). The crystal also features molecules linked through two N—H...O hydrogen bonds resulting in one-dimensional chains extending along the crystallographic b axis.
ISSN:1600-5368