μ-Chlorido-bis({N-benzyl-N′-[2-(benzylamino)ethyl]ethane-1,2-diamine}chloridocopper(II)) chloride

✍ Scribed by Liu, Yu-Fen ;Xia, Hai-Tao ;Wang, Da-Qi ;Yang, Shu-Ping

• Publisher: International Union of Crystallography
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1008 KB
• Volume: 63
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1600-5368
• DOI: 10.1107/s1600536807051434

✦ Synopsis

In the title compound, [Cu~2~Cl~3~(C~18~H~25~N~3~)~2~]Cl, the asymmetric unit consists of one half of a μ-chlorido-bis[{N-benzyl-N′-[2-(benzylamino)ethyl]ethane-1,2-diamine}chloridocopper(II)] complex cation and one chloride anion lying on a twofold rotation axis. The two Cu^II^ centres are symmetry-related by a twofold rotation axis passing through the bridging Cl atom. The Cu atoms exhibit a distorted square-pyramidal coordination environment. The basal and apical Cu—Cl bond lengths are 2.254 (2) and 2.658 (2) Å, respectively. The Cu...Cu distance and Cu—Cl—Cu angle are 4.349 (6) Å and 109.8 (2)°, respectively. In the crystal structure, the molecules of the complex are linked into chains along b and a by C—H...π hydrogen bonds. The chloride anion links these chains along c into a three-dimensional network structure.