Tetrakis(μ-naphthalene-1-acetato-κ2O:O′)bis[(N,N-dimethylformamide-κO)copper(II)]

Abstract

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, [Cu2(C12H9O2)4(C3H7NO)2], contains two independent centrosymmetric dinuclear copper(II) complexes. The central paddle-wheel units are formed by four bridging bidentate naphthalene-1-acetate ligands with two dimethylformamide ligands in the axial positions. The unique CuII ions have slightly distorted square-pyramidal coordination geometries. One of the naphthalene rings is disordered over two sets of sites, with refined occpancies of 0.535 (4) and 0.465 (4).