Chloridobis(ethane-1,2-diamine)(4-fluoroaniline)cobalt(III) dichloride monohydrate

Abstract

The hydrated title salt, [CoCl(C6H6FN)(C2H8N2)2]Cl2·H2O, comprises of one chloridobis(ethane-1,2-diamine)(4-fluoroaniline)cobalt(III) cation, two chloride counter-anions and a water molecule of crystallization. The CoIII ion has a distorted octahedral environment and is surrounded by four N atoms in the equatorial plane, with a fifth N atom and one Cl− ligand occupying the axial positions. One of the methylene C groups in one of the ethane-1,2-diamine ligands is disordered over two set of sites in a 0.832 (10):0.168 (10) ratio. In the crystal, the complex cation, the two counter-anions and the water molecule of crystallization are linked via N—H...Cl, O—H...Cl and C—H...Cl hydrogen bonds, generating rings with R42(8), R21(6), R42(10) and R22(6) graph-set motifs within a three-dimensional network.

Keywords

• crystal structure
• ethane-1,2-diamine
• fluoroaniline ligand
• cobalt(III) complex
• hydrogen bonding
• C—H...Cl interactions