C. Janiak et Tg. Scharmann, THE RACEMIC C-3-SYMMETRICAL PROPELLER STRUCTURE OF CHLOROTRIS(1,3-DIPHENYL-1,3-PROPANEDIONATO-O, O')ZIRCONIUM(IV), Acta crystallographica. Section C, Crystal structure communications, 54, 1998, pp. 210-212
The title compound, [ZrCl(C15H11O2)(3)], contains three 1,3-diphenyl-1
,3-propanedionato (or dibenzoylmethanate) ligands arranged as propelle
r blades around the C-3 Zr-Cl axis to give a chiral molecule. The cent
rosymmetric space group contains a racemic mixture of left- and right-
handed propellers. The coordination geometry around the seven-coordina
te Zr metal atom is a capped octahedron.