Acta Cryst. (2009). E65, m776 [ doi:10.1107/S1600536809021758 ]
Abstract: In the title compound, [Fe(CH3CN)2(C14H32O4P2)2]Cl2, the FeII atom lies on a crystallographic inversion center and has a distorted trans-FeN2P4 octahedral coordination environment arising from two P,P'-bidentate 1,2-bis[bis(3-hydroxypropyl)phosphino]ethane ligands in the equatorial plane and two acetonitrile molecules in the axial positions. One of the pendant -(CH2)3OH groups of the ligand is disordered over two sets of sites in a 0.597 (5):0.403 (5) ratio. In the crystal, O-HCl and O-HO hydrogen bonding helps to establish the packing.
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