Acta Crystallographica Section E

Structure Reports Online

Volume 63, Part 3 (March 2007)

metal-organic compounds

hk2204 scheme

Acta Cryst. (2007). E63, m892-m894 [ doi:10.1107/S1600536807008069 ]

2,5-Dibromopyridinium hexabromidostannate(IV)

B. F. Ali and R. Al-Far

Abstract: The asymmetric unit of the title compound, (C₅H₄Br₂N)₂[SnBr₆], contains one cation and one half-anion. The anion exhibits a distorted octahedral arrangement about the Sn atom, which lies on a crystallographic twofold rotation axis. In the crystal structure, intermolecular hydrogen bonds and short BrBr interactions cause the formation of a supramolecular architecture, in which they may be effective in the stabilization of the structure.