Bis(1,10-phenanthrolin-1-ium) tetra-chlorido-zincate monohydrate

E Govindan; Subramani Thirumurugan; Ayyakannu Sundaram Ganeshraja; Krishnamoorthy Anbalagan; A Subbiahpandi

doi:10.1107/S1600536814000208

Bis(1,10-phenanthrolin-1-ium) tetra-chlorido-zincate monohydrate

Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online. 2014 Jan 18;70(Pt 2):m53. doi: 10.1107/S1600536814000208. eCollection 2014 Feb 1.

Authors

E Govindan¹, Subramani Thirumurugan², Ayyakannu Sundaram Ganeshraja², Krishnamoorthy Anbalagan², A Subbiahpandi¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics, Presidency College (Autonomous), Chennai 600 005, India.
² Department of Chemistry, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry 605 014, India.

Abstract

In the crystal structure of the title compound, (C12H9N2)2[ZnCl4]·H2O, the two independent 1,10-phenanthrolinium cations are bridged by the water mol-ecule and the tetrahedral tetrachloridozincate anion via N-H⋯O, O-H⋯Cl and N-H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds, forming chains along [100]. The chains are linked via C-H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds and a number of π-π inter-actions [centroid-centroid distances vary from 3.5594 (14) to 3.7057 (13) Å], forming a three-dimensional network. In each 1,10-phenanthrolinium cation, there is a short N-H⋯N inter-action.