Acta Crystallographica Section E

Structure Reports Online

Volume 64, Part 3 (March 2008)

metal-organic compounds

ci2547 scheme

Acta Cryst. (2008). E64, m464-m465 [ doi:10.1107/S1600536808003528 ]

trans-Carbonylchloridobis(tri-p-tolylphosphine)rhodium(I) acetone solvate

F. Lorenzini, B. O. Patrick and B. R. James

Abstract: The title compound, [RhCl(C₂₁H₂₁P)₂(CO)]·C₃H₆O, was precipitated in trace yield from a reaction of RhCl(cod)(THP) with P(p-tol)₃ in a 1:1 acetone-d₆/CD₃OD solution under a hydrogen atmosphere [p-tol = p-tolyl, THP = tris(hydroxymethyl)phosphine, P(CH₂OH)₃, and cod = 1,5-cyclooctadiene]. The complex displays a square-planar geometry around the Rh^I atom. The complex molecules and the acetone molecules are linked into a chain along the a axis by intermolecular C-HCl and C-HO hydrogen bonds.