Tricarbonyl[1,1',1"-ethylidynetris(pyrazole-kappaN2)]rhenium(I) bromide and tricarbonyl[methylidynetris(pyrazole-kappaN2)]rhenium(I) iodide ethanol hemisolvate.
The two title compounds, [Re(C(10)H(10)N(6))(CO)(3)]Br and [Re(C(11)H(12)N(6))(CO)(3)]I.0.5C(2)H(6)O, have slightly distorted octahedral geometries about the rhenium centers. The distortions result from the constraints of the eta(3)-coordinated tris(pyrazol-1-yl)methane ligands in each case which reduce the N-Re-N bond angles well below the preferred value of 90 degrees for facially disposed ligands at a six-coordinate metal center.
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