Di-μ-hydroxido-bis[tris(4,4,4-trifluoro-1-phenylacetylacetonato-κ2O,O′)hafnium(IV)] dimethylformamide disolvate

The binuclear molecule of the title compound, [Hf2(C10H6F3O2)6(OH)2]·2C3H7NO, lies across an inversion centre and contains a HfIV atom which is eight-coordinated and surrounded by three chelating β-diketonato tris(4,4,4-trifluoro-1-phenylacetylacetonate (tfba−...

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Main Authors: J. Augustinus Viljoen, Hendrik G. Visser, Andreas Roodt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Union of Crystallography 2011-12-01
Series:Acta Crystallographica Section E
Online Access:http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S1600536811049543
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Summary:The binuclear molecule of the title compound, [Hf2(C10H6F3O2)6(OH)2]·2C3H7NO, lies across an inversion centre and contains a HfIV atom which is eight-coordinated and surrounded by three chelating β-diketonato tris(4,4,4-trifluoro-1-phenylacetylacetonate (tfba−) ligands and two bridging OH− groups in a distorted square-antiprismatic geometry. The Hf—O bond lengths vary from 2.073 (2) to 2.244 (2) Å and the O—Hf—O bite angles vary from 73.49 (9) to 75.60 (9)°. Weak O—H...O hydrogen-bonding interactions are observed between the bridging hydroxy groups and the dimethylformamide solvent molecules. The unit cell contains solvent-accessible voids of 131 Å3, but the residual electron density in the difference Fourier map suggests no solvent molecule occupies this void.
ISSN:1600-5368