Acta Crystallographica Section E (Dec 2011)

(Acetonitrile-κN)chloridobis[2-(pyridin-2-yl)phenyl-κ2C1,N]iridium(III)

  • Florian Blasberg,
  • Jan W. Bats,
  • Matthias Wagner,
  • Hans-Wolfram Lerner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600536811049373
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 67, no. 12
pp. m1837 – m1838

Abstract

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The IrIII atom of the title compound, [Ir(C11H8N)2Cl(CH3CN)], displays a distorted octahedral coordination. The pyridyl groups are in trans positions [N—Ir—N = 173.07 (10)°], while the phenyl groups are trans with respect to the acetonitrile and chloride groups [C—Ir—N = 178.13 (11) and C—Ir—Cl = 176.22 (9)°]. The pyridylphenyl groups only show a small deviation from planarity, with the dihedral angle between the planes of the two six-membered rings in each pyridylphenyl group being 5.6 (2) and 5.8 (1)°. The crystal packing shows intermolecular C—H...Cl, C—H...π(acetonitrile) and C—H...π(pyridylphenyl) contacts.