Acta Cryst. (2003). E59, m306-m307  [ doi:10.1107/S1600536803009231 ]

Tris(quinolin-8-olato)indium(III)

M. Rajeswaran and V. V. Jarikov

Abstract: The single-crystal structure of the title compound, [In(C₉H₆NO)₃], is described. Quinolinolates of the elements of the group IIIB (denoted by MQ₃), Al, Ga, and In, have been of continuous interest to organometallic and physical chemists, in particular, for the last 50 years. Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) utilizing GaQ₃ and InQ₃, the gallium and indium analogs, respectively, of the most widely used OLED material AlQ₃, were first explored in the early 1980s and continue to be the subject of current research. To the best of our knowledge, the structure reported here is the first-ever facial MQ₃-type structure, confirmed by single-crystal X-ray crystallography.

Online 9 May 2003

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