Acta Cryst. (2009). E65, m471  [ doi:10.1107/S1600536809011155 ]

Bis(-N-benzyl-N-tetradecyldithiocarbamato-²S:S')bis[(N-benzyl-N-tetradecyldithiocarbamato-²S,S')zinc(II)]

C.-M. Jia, W.-B. Yuan, Q. Lin, Q. Zhang and J. Pei

Abstract: In the title compound, [Zn₂(C₂₂H₃₆NS₂)₄], two bidentate dithiocarbamate groups chelate directly to the Zn^II atoms, whereas the two remaining dithiocarbamate ligands bridge the Zn atoms via a crystallographic inversion centre. The Zn atoms show a strongly distorted tetrahedral geometry. Adding the long SS distance with the inversion centre being in the middle, the resulting five-coordinate geometry around the Zn atoms can be considered to be between distorted rectangular pyramidal and trigonal bipyramidal, with a calculated value of 0.31. In this dimer complex, two inversion-related tetradecyl carbon chains exhibit all-trans conformations, and the other two chains show a cis conformation at the end of the chains.

Online 31 March 2009

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