Crystal structure of 2-methyl-1H-imidazol-3-ium aqua-tri-chlorido-(oxalato-κ(2) O,O')stannate(IV).

ABSTRACT: The tin(IV) atom in the complex anion of the title salt, (C4H7N2)[Sn(C2O4)Cl3(H2O)], is in a distorted octa-hedral coordination environment defined by three chlorido ligands, an oxygen atom from a water mol-ecule and two oxygen atoms from a chelating oxalate anion. The organic cation is linked through a bifurcated N-H⋯O hydrogen bond to the free oxygen atoms of the oxalate ligand of the complex [Sn(H2O)Cl3(C2O4)](-) anion. Neighbouring stannate(IV) anions are linked through O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds involving the water mol-ecule and the two non-coordinating oxalate oxygen atoms. In combination with additional N-H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds between cations and anions, a three-dimensional network is spanned.

SUBMITTER: Diop MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4420124 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature