Bis(dimethyl sulfoxide-κO)tetra-kis-(μ2-3,4,5-tri-meth-oxy-benzoato-κ(2) O:O')dizinc.

ABSTRACT: The colourless title complex, [Zn2(C10H11O5)4(C2H6OS)2], crystallizes with one half-mol-ecule in the asymmetric unit, the other half of the mol-ecule being generated by a crystallographic inversion center. The structure shows a μ2-O:O'-bridging mode of the four 3,4,5-tri-meth-oxy-benzoate ligands finally stabilizing the two Zn(II) atoms in the dinuclear complex in a distorted square-pyramidal environment. The fifth coord-in-ation site in the apical position of the pyramid is occupied by a coordinating dimethyl sulfoxide solvent mol-ecule equally disordered over two positions.

SUBMITTER: Deutsch D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3884499 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature