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Volume 66 
Part 4 
Page m354  
April 2010  

Received 21 February 2010
Accepted 26 February 2010
Online 3 March 2010

Key indicators
Single-crystal X-ray study
T = 293 K
Mean [sigma](C-C) = 0.005 Å
R = 0.026
wR = 0.089
Data-to-parameter ratio = 20.6
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Bis(N-isopropyl-N-methyldithiocarbamato-[kappa]2S,S')diphenyltin(IV)

aSchool of Chemical Sciences, Universiti Kebangbaan Malaysia, 43600 Bangi, Malaysia, and bDepartment of Chemistry, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Correspondence e-mail: seikweng@um.edu.my

The dithiocarbamate anions in the title compound, [Sn(C6H5)2(C5H10NS2)2], chelate to the SnIV atom, which is six-coordinated in a skew-trapezoidal-bipyramidal geometry. The molecule lies across a twofold rotation axis.

Related literature

For other diphenyltin bis(dithiocarbamate) compounds, see: Alcock et al. (1992[Alcock, N. W., Culver, J. & Roe, S. M. (1992). J. Chem. Soc. Dalton Trans. pp. 1477-1484.]); Farina et al. (2001a[Farina, Y., Baba, I., Othman, A. H., Razak, I. A., Fun, H.-K. & Ng, S. W. (2001a). Acta Cryst. E57, m41-m42.],b[Farina, Y., Othman, A. H., Razak, I. A., Fun, H.-K., Ng, S. W. & Baba, I. (2001b). Acta Cryst. E57, m46-m47.]); Hook et al. (1994[Hook, J. M., Linahan, B. M., Taylor, R. L., Tiekink, E. R. T., van Gorkom, L. & Webster, L. K. (1994). Main Group Met. Chem. 17, 293-311.]). For a discussion of the geometry of tin in diorganotin bischelates, see: Ng et al. (1987[Ng, S. W., Chen, W., Kumar Das, V. G. & Mak, T. C. W. (1987). J. Organomet. Chem. 334, 295-305.]).

[Scheme 1]

Experimental

Crystal data
  • [Sn(C6H5)2(C5H10NS2)2]

  • Mr = 569.41

  • Orthorhombic, P b c n

  • a = 18.8797 (10) Å

  • b = 9.2067 (5) Å

  • c = 14.5694 (8) Å

  • V = 2532.4 (2) Å3

  • Z = 4

  • Mo K[alpha] radiation

  • [mu] = 1.35 mm-1

  • T = 293 K

  • 0.35 × 0.35 × 0.20 mm

Data collection
  • Bruker SMART APEX diffractometer

  • Absorption correction: multi-scan (SADABS; Sheldrick, 1996[Sheldrick, G. M. (1996). SADABS. University of Göttingen, Germany.]) Tmin = 0.649, Tmax = 0.774

  • 15127 measured reflections

  • 2785 independent reflections

  • 2291 reflections with I > 2[sigma](I)

  • Rint = 0.022

Refinement
  • R[F2 > 2[sigma](F2)] = 0.026

  • wR(F2) = 0.089

  • S = 1.10

  • 2785 reflections

  • 135 parameters

  • H-atom parameters constrained

  • [Delta][rho]max = 0.29 e Å-3

  • [Delta][rho]min = -0.30 e Å-3

Table 1
Selected bond lengths (Å)

Sn1-C1 2.167 (3)
Sn1-S1 2.5820 (7)
Sn1-S2 2.6910 (8)

Data collection: APEX2 (Bruker, 2009[Bruker (2009). APEX2 and SAINT. Bruker AXS Inc., Madison, Wisconsin, USA.]); cell refinement: SAINT (Bruker, 2009[Bruker (2009). APEX2 and SAINT. Bruker AXS Inc., Madison, Wisconsin, USA.]); data reduction: SAINT; program(s) used to solve structure: SHELXS97 (Sheldrick, 2008[Sheldrick, G. M. (2008). Acta Cryst. A64, 112-122.]); program(s) used to refine structure: SHELXL97 (Sheldrick, 2008[Sheldrick, G. M. (2008). Acta Cryst. A64, 112-122.]); molecular graphics: X-SEED (Barbour, 2001[Barbour, L. J. (2001). J. Supramol. Chem. 1, 189-191.]); software used to prepare material for publication: publCIF (Westrip, 2010[Westrip, S. P. (2010). publCIF. In preparation.]).


Supplementary data and figures for this paper are available from the IUCr electronic archives (Reference: CI5039 ).


Acknowledgements

The authors thank Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM-GUP-NBT-08-27-111 and 06-01-02-SF0539) and the University of Malaya for supporting this study.

References

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Acta Cryst (2010). E66, m354  [ doi:10.1107/S1600536810007415 ]

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