metal-organic compounds
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In the title compound, (C12H12N2)[Ta2F10O], the doubly protonated 5,6-dihydro-1,10-phenantroline-1,10-diium cation is located on a twofold rotation axis, whereas the isolated [Ta2OF10]2− dianion has -1 symmetry. In the so far unknown dianion, the symmetry-related TaV atoms are octahedrally coordinated by five F atoms and a bridging O atom, the latter being located on an inversion centre. The two pyridine rings in the cation make a dihedral angle of 22.8 (4)°. The cations and dianions are arranged in layers parallel to (100) and are connected through N—HF and C—HF hydrogen-bonding interactions into a three-dimensional structure.