Structure Reports Online

Volume 67, Part 1 (January 2011)

metal-organic compounds

ng5072 scheme

Acta Cryst. (2011). E67, m30 [ doi:10.1107/S1600536810049639 ]

Aquabis(benzoato-O)(1,10-phenanthroline-²N,N')zinc(II)

J.-Z. Liu, Z. Zhang, Z.-W. Shi and P. Gao

Abstract: The Zn atom in the title compound, [Zn(C₇H₅O₂)₂(C₁₂H₈N₂)(H₂O)], is five-coordinate in a distorted trigonal-bipyramidal coordination environment involving two O atoms of two monodentate benzoates, two N atoms of a 1,10-phenanthroline molecule and one O atom of a water molecule. The axial positions are occupied by a carboxylate O atom from the benzoate ligand and an N atom from the 1,10-phenanthroline ligand [N-Zn-O = 146.90 (7)°]. The water molecule forms an intramolecular O-HO hydrogen bond; an intermolecular O-HO hydrogen bond gives rise to a dimer.