Crystal structure of the two-dimensional coordination polymer poly[di-μ-bromido-bis(μ-tetrahydrothiophene)dicopper(I)]

• Main Authors: Michael Knorr, Lydie Viau, Yoann Rousselin, Marek M. Kubicki
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: International Union of Crystallography 2021-07-01
• Series: Acta Crystallographica Section E: Crystallographic Communications
• Subjects: crystal structure; two-dimensional coordination polymer; cu2br2 rhomboids; tetrahydrothiophene; c—h...br hydrogen bonding.
• Online Access: http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S2056989021006460
• ISSN: 2056-9890

The polymeric title compound, [Cu2Br2(C4H8S)2]n, CP1, represents an example of a two-dimensional coordination polymer resulting from reaction of CuBr with tetrahydrothiophene (THT) in MeCN solution. The two-dimensional layers consist of two different types of rhomboid-shaped dinuclear Cu(μ2-Br)2Cu secondary building units (SBUs); one with a quite loose Cu...Cu separation of 3.3348 (10) Å and a second one with a much closer intermetallic contact of 2.9044 (9) Å. These SBUs are interconnected through bridging THT ligands, in which the S atom acts as a four-electron donor bridging each Cu(μ2-Br)2Cu unit in a μ2-bonding mode. In the crystal, the layers are linked by very weak C—H...·Br hydrogen bonds with H...Br distances of 2.95 Å, thus giving rise to a three-dimensional supramolecular network.