Tris(1,10-phenanthroline-κ2N,N′)nickel(II) bis(hexafluoridophosphate)

• Main Authors: Hicham El Hamdani, Mohammed El Amane, Carine Duhayon
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: International Union of Crystallography 2018-05-01
• Series: IUCrData
• Subjects: crystal structure; 1,10-phenanthroline; hexafluoridophosphate; nickel(II); hydrogen bonding
• Online Access: http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S2414314618007095
• ISSN: 2414-3146

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, [Ni(C36H24N6)3](PF6)2, contains one and a half nickel(II) complex dications and three hexafluoridophosphate anions, one of the dications having crystallographic twofold rotational symmetry. Each NiII atom displays a distorted octahedral coordination geometry provided by the six N atoms of three bidentate 1,10-phenanthroline ligands with bite angles of 79.68 (11)–80.76 (12)°. In the crystal, C—H...F hydrogen bonds link the anions and dications into a three-dimensional supramolecular framework. Within the framework complex dications with twofold rotational symmetry are linked by weak π–π stacking interactions [centroid-to-centroid distances = 3.712 (2) Å].