Cheng Jie
School of Biological and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, Ningbo 315100, People's Republic of China.
Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online. 2011 Jul 1;67(Pt 7):m987. doi: 10.1107/S1600536811023865. Epub 2011 Jun 25.
The dinuclear title complex, [Mg(2)(C(19)H(40)N(3)Si(2))(2)Cl(2)(C(4)H(8)O)(2)], lies on a center of inversion. The Mg(2+) ions are bonded to a chelating N,N'-bonded guanidinate anion, a tetra-hydro-furan mol-ecule and two bridging chloride anions. The geometry of the resulting five-coordinated Mg(2+) ion is a very distorted square-based pyramid with the O atom in the apical position.