Mr. Churchill et al., A HYDROGEN-BONDED DICHLOROMETHANE-PERCHLORATE-WATER CHANNEL IN THE CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE OF O-TOLYL)(2))CL-]CENTER-DOT-CH2CL2-CENTER-DOT-H2O(] [CLO4), Journal of chemical crystallography, 26(1), 1996, pp. 67-73
The complex cis-[Ru(bpy)(2){PPh(o-tolyl)(2)}Cl+][ClO4-] crystallized f
rom a solution in dichloromethane as the dichioromethane-water solvate
. The structure was refined to R = 4.5% for those 2433 reflections wit
h \F-o\ > 6 sigma(\F-o\). The octahedral Ru(II) cation is associated w
ith metal-ligand distances as follows: Ru-Cl = 2.434(3)Angstrom, Ru-PP
h(o-tol)(2) = 2.382(2)Angstrom, and Ru-N = 2.037(7) - 2.088(7)Angstrom
. The structure is stabilized by a hydrogen-bonded CH2Cl2 ... ClO4-...
H2O channel which incorporates adventitious water of crystallization.