Tetrakis(μ2-ferrocenecarboxylato-κ2O:O′)bis[(methanol-κO)copper(II)] methanol disolvate

Abstract

The complex molecule of the title compound, [Cu2Fe4(C5H5)4(C6H4O2)4(CH3OH)2]·2CH3OH, lies about an inversion centre and contains two centrosymetrically related CuII atoms bridged by four O:O′-bidentante ferrocenecarboxylate anions, leading to a dimeric tetrabridged unit with a paddle-wheel geometry. The CuII atom has a distorted square-pyramidal coordination environment with four O atoms from four ferrocenecarboxylate ligands in basal positions and an O atom from a methanol molecule in an apical position. One of the two crystallographically independent ferrocenyl groups has a staggered conformation, while the other is eclipsed. The molecules are connected into a chain along the b axis by O—H...O hydrogen bonds involving coordinated and uncoordinated methanol molecules and the O atom from a ferrocenecarboxylate unit.