Dichloridobis(2-phenyl-pyridine-κN)zinc(II)

Abstract

In the title compound, [ZnCl 2(C 11H 9N) 2], the Zn 2+ cation lies on a twofold axis and is coordinated by two Cl - anions and the N atoms of two 2-phenyl-pyridine ligands, forming a ZnN 2Cl 2 polyhedron with a slightly distorted tetra-hedral coordination geometry. The dihedral angle between the phenyl ring and the metal-bound pyridine ring is 50.3 (4)° for each 2-phenyl-pyridine ligand. This arranges the phenyl ring from one ligand in the complex above the pyridine ring of the other resulting in an intra-molecular π-π inter-action, with a centroid-centroid distance of 3.6796 (17) Å. Weak C-H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds stabilize the crystal packing, linking mol-ecules into chains along the c axis.