organic compounds
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Refluxing a mixture of 1,10-phenanthroline, (4-fluorophenyl)thiourea and cadmium(II) chloride did not produce the expected mixed-ligand complex but formed a co-crystal of the two ligands, C12H8N2·C7H7FN2S. The asymmetric unit consists of two pairs of the co-crystal molecules. In each (4-fluorophenyl)thiourea molecule, the planes of the N2CS thiourea units are almost perpendicular to the corresponding fluorobenzene rings, subtending angles of 76.53 (7) and 85.25 (7)°. In the crystal, N—HN and N—HS hydrogen bonds form inversion dimers from the co-crystal pairs. A weak π–π interaction between the phenanthroline rings [centroid–centroid distance = 3.7430 (15)Å] is also observed.