metal-organic compounds
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The title complex, [Re2(C27H25N2O2)H(CO)8]·0.67C4H8O, was formed as a product in the reaction of a rhenium(I)–Fischer carbene complex with a free NHC carbene. The coordination environment about the two Re atoms is slightly distorted octahedral, including a bridging H atom. The imidazolium and furan groups are almost coplanar, whereas the mesityl substituents show an almost perpendicular arrangement with respect to both heterocyclic units. Molecules of the complex pack in such a way as to form channels parallel with the bc unit-cell face diagonal running through the unit face diagonal. These channels are partially occupied by tetrahydrofuran solvent molecules.
metal-organic compounds
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The octahedral coordination of the Cr0 atom in the title compound, [Cr(C20H24N2)(CO)4], displays some distortion. This is manifested by an exocyclic torsion angle C(mesitylene)—N—Cr—C(carbonyl) that deviates by more than 20° from planarity. Another structural feature is the significant distortion from linearity of the Cr—C—O angles of the two carbonyl groups that interact with both ortho-methyl groups of the two mesitylene rings. The remaining two carbonyl groups overlap with the centres of the mesitylene rings themselves and are linear within <3°.