Acta Cryst. (2005). E61, m1854-m1856  [ doi:10.1107/S1600536805026644 ]

Aqua(1,10-phenanthroline)bis(trichloroacetato)copper(II)

P. Yin, M.-L. Hu and Q. Miao

Abstract: In the title compound, [Cu(C₂Cl₃O₂)₂(C₁₂H₈N₂)(H₂O)], the copper(II) ion is five-coordinated by four basal atoms (two N atoms from a 1,10-phenanthroline molecule and two O atoms from two trichloroacetate anions) and one axial aqua molecule, in a distorted square-pyramidal coordination geometry. Moreover, two adjacent mononuclear units are associated by intra- and intermolecular O-HO hydrogen bonds to form a grid dimer. The hydrogen-bonding pattern could be described in graph-set terminology as R₁¹(6)R₁²(8).

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