metal-organic compounds
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The title compound, [Na(C62H76N2O6)]I·1.5C6F4I2·2CH3OH, is composed of five components: a calix[4]arene derivative (hereinafter C4), a sodium cation, an iodide anion, a 1,2,4,5-tetrafluoro-3,6-diiodobenzene (tFdIB) molecule and a methanol molecule in a 1:1:1:1.5:2 ratio. The complex shows several interesting features: (i) the polyoxygenated loop of C4 effectively chelates a sodium cation in the form of a distorted octahedron and separates it from the iodide counter-ion, the shortest Na+I− distance being greater than 6.5 Å; (ii) the cavity of C4 is filled by a methanol molecule; (iii) a second methanol molecule is hydrogen-bonded to the N atom of a pyridinyl substituent pendant of C4 and halogen-bonded to the I atom of a tFdIB molecule; (iv) the two I atoms of another tFdIB molecule are halogen-bonded to two iodide anions, which act as monodentate halogen-bond acceptorss; (v) one of the two tFdIB molecules is located about a centre of inversion.
metal-organic compounds
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The title adduct, [K(C30H24F12I3NO6)]I, gives an extended tape of cations linked through II− halogen bonds (XBs), two of them being quite short and one quite long. In the structure, the cation is hosted in a cavity formed by the arms of the podand which presents a closed conformation wherein two tetrafluoroiodobenzene rings are near parallel [dihedral angle = 15.8 (4)°; centroid–centroid distance = 3.908 (5) Å] and the third ring is closer to orthogonal [dihedral angles = 66.28 (14) and 75.20 (19)°] to the other two rings. The coordination sphere of the K+ cation is composed of the six O atoms, the N atom and an F atom in the ortho position of one of the rings.