Acta Cryst. (2007). E63, m123-m125  [ doi:10.1107/S1600536806052068 ]

Diisopropyl(N,N,N',N'-tetramethylethylenediamine)zinc(II), the first crystal structure of a diisopropylzinc complex

A. Lennartson, A. Hedström and M. Håkansson

Abstract: Although diisopropylzinc has attracted considerable interest as a useful organometallic reagent over the past ten years, diisopropylzinc complexes are still absent in the present version of the Cambridge Structural Database. In the title compound, a tmeda (tmeda is N,N,N',N'-tetramethylethylenediamine) adduct, [Zn(C₃H₇)₂(C₆H₁₆N₂)], the Zn^II atom, which lies on a crystallographic twofold rotation axis, is in a distorted tetrahedral geometry. The molecules are held together by dispersion forces, without any contacts within the sum of the van der Waals radii.

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