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metal-organic compounds
The title compound, [VCl2(C5H5)(C6H5N)], contains vanadium in a tetrahedral coordination geometry with the cyclopentadienyl (Cp) ligand occupying one of the four sites and showing an allyl-ene distortion. The V—N—C angle is 169.1 (4)°. The crystal packing involves C—HCl interactions with HCl distances in the range 2.87 (5)–2.89 (4) Å.