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metal-organic compounds
In the title complex, [CuI(C12H8N2)(C18H15P)], phenanthroline acts as a bidentate ligand coordinating via two N atoms to copper. The coordination polyhedron around Cu is a distorted tetrahedron, with a Cu-P distance of 2.1977 (9) Å, Cu-N distances of 2.111 (3) and 2.071 (3) Å, and a Cu-I distance of 2.6157 (6) Å.