Research Article: Tetra­kis(1-benzyl-1H-imidazole)dichlorido­nickel(II)

Date Published: May 01, 2009

Publisher: International Union of Crystallography

Author(s): Hongjuan Li, Jufeng Sun, Xianping Dai.

http://doi.org/10.1107/S1600536809014494

Abstract

In the title compound, [NiCl2(C10H10N2)4], the NiII ion is located on an inversion center being coordinated by four N atoms from two pairs of symmetry-related 1-benzyl-1H-imidazole ligands and two chloride anions in a distorted octa­hedral geometry. Weak inter­molecular C—H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds link the mol­ecules into layers parallel to the ab plane.

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For general background to crystal engineering, see: Balamurugan et al. (2004 ▶); Desiraju (2007 ▶); Moulton & Zaworotko (2001 ▶). For applications of imidazole derivatives, see Lu et al. (2006 ▶); Huang et al. (2006 ▶). For details of the synthesis, see Owen et al. (2006 ▶).

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http://doi.org/10.1107/S1600536809014494