Acta Cryst. (2007). E63, m1790  [ doi:10.1107/S1600536807021915 ]

Tetraethylammonium dichlorido[N,N'-(4,5-dichloro-o-phenylene)bis(4-tert-butylpyridine-2-carboxamide)-⁴N]ferrate(III) acetonitrile solvate

X.-B. Xu, L. Yang, Y.-Y. Qu, L.-X. Li and X.-G. Zhou

Abstract: In the title compound, (C₈H₂₀N)[Fe(C₂₆H₂₆Cl₂N₄O₂)Cl₂]·CHCl₃, conventionally abbreviated as [NEt₄][Fe(bbpc)Cl₂]·CHCl₃ [H₂bbpc = N,N'-(4,5-dichloro-o-phenylene)bis(4-tert-butylpyridine-2-carboxamide)], the Fe^III ion is six-coordinate, forming a distorted octahedron with two pyridine and two deprotonated amide N atoms in the equatorial plane, while the two axial sites are occupied by two Cl atoms.

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