Acta Cryst. (2007). E63, m3091-m3092  [ doi:10.1107/S1600536807059181 ]

Bis(2-aminopyridine-N¹)bis(benzoato-²O,O')cadmium(II)

D.-C. Zhong, G.-Q. Guo, J.-H. Deng, R.-H. Zhu and Y.-B. Zhou

Abstract: In the title compound, [Cd(C₇H₅O₂)₂(C₅H₆N₂)₂], the Cd^II atom is hexacoordinated by four O atoms from two crystallographically independent benzoate anions, and two pyridine N atoms from two crystallographically independent 2-aminopyridine molecules in a distorted octahedral geometry. In the crystal structure, the metal complexes are connected by N-HO hydrogen bonding between the carboxylate O atoms of the benzoate anions and the amino H atoms of the 2-aminopyridine ligands. The benzoate and the aminopyridine rings are stacked in the direction of the crystallographic a axis, indicating - stacking interactions are present [centroid-centroid distance = 3.6790 (15) Å].

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