Tetrakis(μ2-2-phenoxypropionato)-κ3O,O′:O′;κ3O:O,O′;κ4O:O′-bis[(1,10-phenanthroline-κ2N,N′)(2-phenoxypropionato-κ2O,O′)cerium(III)]

Abstract

In the centrosymmetric binuclear title complex, [Ce2(C9H9O3)6(C12H8N2)2], the two CeIII ions are linked by four 2-phenoxypropionate groups in bi- and tridentate bridging modes. Each CeIII ion is nine-coordinated by one 1,10-phenanthroline molecule, two O atoms from a chelating carboxylate, two O atoms derived from a μ3-carboxylate and two O atoms derived from two μ2-carboxylate ligands in a distorted CeN2O7 monocapped square-antiprismatic geometry.