Crystal structure of germanium(II) dichloride solvated by tetrahydrofuran

✍ Scribed by Xin Tian; Tania Pape; Norbert W. Mitzel

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 75 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1042-7163
• DOI: 10.1002/hc.20105

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The thermally highly unstable tetrahydrofuran solvate of germanium(II) dichloride (GeCl~2~ · 2THF) was crystallized, and its crystal structure was determined. It consists of a chain of GeCl~2~ units connected by secondary Cl···Ge contacts [3.846(2) Å] in which each Ge atom is coordinated to two molecules of THF. Two weak hydrogen bonds of the CH ··· ClGe type in GeCl~2~ · 2THF were also detected both with lengths of 2.90(3) Å. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Heteroatom Chem 16:361–363, 2005; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/hc.20105