journal menuBuy article online - an online subscription or single-article purchase is required to access this article.
metal-organic compounds
![[mu]](/logos/entities/mu_rmgif.gif)
-isocyanato-bis[isocyanato(1,10-phenanthroline)copper(II)]The structure of blue [Cu2(NCO)4(C12H8N2)2] consists of [Cu(NCO)2(phen)] subunits (phen is 1,10-phenanthroline) in a distorted planar arrangement, the subunits existing in centrosymmetrically related pairs in the crystal packing. The subunits have a four-coordinated distorted square-planar arrangement of N atoms about the central Cu atom; pairs of these [Cu(NCO)2(phen)] subunits form dimers by interaction of the fifth position on each Cu center with an N atom of an isocyanate ligand of the associated subunit. The coordination around each Cu atom is best described as distorted square-pyramidal.
Subscribe to Acta Crystallographica Section C: Structural Chemistry
