Benslimane Meriem, Redjel Yasmine Kheira, Dénès Georges, Merazig Hocine
Unité de Recherche de Chimie de l'Environnement et Moléculaire Structurale, Faculté des Sciences Exactes, Département de Chimie, Université de Constantine 1, 25000 Constantine, Algeria.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada.
Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online. 2013 Aug 23;69(Pt 9):m517-8. doi: 10.1107/S1600536813023258. eCollection 2013.
The title compound, [Co2(C8H7O2)4(C7H10N2)2], crystallizes as a centrosymmetric dimer containing two Co(II) atoms bridged by four bidentate phenyl-acetate ligands in syn-syn bridging modes. Each Co(II) atom is five-coordinated by four O atoms from four different carboxyl-ate ligands and the ring N atom of a 4-(di-methyl-amino)-pyridine unit, generating a distorted square-pyramidal geometry in which the four O atoms form the basal plane and the N atom occupies the axial position. In the crystal, C-H⋯O inter-actions link the dinuclear complex mol-ecules into a three-dimensional network.