Acta Cryst. (2011). E67, m779  [ doi:10.1107/S1600536811018162 ]

Bis(2-methylbenzoato-²O,O')(1,10'-phenanthroline-²N,N')copper(II)

S.-L. Ni, F. Zhou and J.-L. Qi

Abstract: In the title compound, [Cu(C₈H₇O₂)₂(C₁₂H₈N₂)], the Cu^II atom assumes a distorted octahedral coordination geometry, chelated by two N atoms from the 1,10'-phenanthroline ligand and four O atoms from two 2-methylbenzoate anions. A significant Jahn-Teller distortion is observed with two axial Cu-O distances significantly longer than those in the equatorial CuO₂N₂ plane. In the crystal, - stacking interactions, with centroid-centroid distances of 3.547 (3) or 3.728 (3) Å between the phenanthroline rings, form layers parallel to (011).

Online 20 May 2011

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