Triethylammonium hexa-μ2-acetato-κ12O:O′-diacetato-κ2O-aqua-μ3-oxido-triferrate(III) toluene monosolvate

• Main Authors: Andrew R. Burgoyne, Reinout Meijboom, Alfred Muller, Bernard O. Omondi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: International Union of Crystallography 2011-08-01
• Series: Acta Crystallographica Section E
• Online Access: http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S160053681102616X

The title compound, (C6H16N)[Fe3(CH3CO2)8O(H2O)]·C7H8, was serendipitously crystallized from a reaction of disilanol with iron(II) acetate. The trinuclear acetatoferrate(III) anion has a triethylammonium cation as the counterion. The three Fe atoms lie on the vertices of a regular triangle and are octahedrally coordinated. The complete coordination of the anion includes shared ligands among the three metal ions: a central tribridging O atom and six bidentate bridging acetyl groups. The six-coordinations of two of the metal ions are completed by a monodentate acetate ligand, whereas that of the third metal ion is completed by a water molecule. The uncoordinated triethylammonium cation is involved in N—H...O hydrogen bonding to a singly coordinated acetyl group. The coordinated aqua molecule is involved in bifurcated O—H...O hydrogen bonding. C—H...O interactions are also observed. The toluene solvent molecule is disordered over two sets of sites in a 0.609 (11):0.391 (11) ratio.