Acta Cryst. (2009). E65, m11  [ doi:10.1107/S1600536808040385 ]

(2,2'-Bipyridine)(2-formyl-6-methoxyphenolato)nickel(II) perchlorate

C.-J. Wang, P.-D. Ren, W.-P. Wu and Z.-B. Zhang

Abstract: In the title compound, [Ni(C₈H₇O₃)(C₁₀H₈N₂)]ClO₄, the Ni^II atom is in a slightly distorted square-planar coordination by two N atoms from the 2,2'-bipyridine (bipy) ligand and two O atoms from the deprotonated 2-formyl-6-methoxyphenolate (mbd) ligand. The bipy ligand is nearly coplanar with the Ni^II square plane, the Ni atom being only 0.042 (2) Å from the mean plane, whereas the benzaldehyde plane is folded with respect to the square plane, making a dihedral angle of 19.17 (8)°. One of the O atoms of the perchlorate anion is involved in a weak interaction with the Ni atom, with an Ni-O distance of 2.5732 (18) Å. The packing is stabilized by weak C-HO interactions.

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