metal-organic compounds
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In the title compound, [Zr(C11H10NO)4]·2C3H7NO, the ZrIV ion is coordinated by four bidentate 5,7-dimethylquinolin-8-olate ligands in a slightly distorted square-antiprismatic coordination environment. The asymmetric unit also contains two N,N′-dimethylformamide (DMF) solvent molecules. In the crystal, a weak C—HO hydrogen bond links the complex molecule to a solvent molecule and weak π–π stacking interactions [centroid–centroid distance = 3.671 (3) Å] also occur. One of the DMF solvent molecules was refined as disordered over three sets of sites, with refined occupancies in the ratio of 0.391 (9):0.342 (10):0.267 (7).