title: Bis(μ-3-hydroxy-benzoato)-κO:O;κO:O-bis-[bis-(1H-benzimidazole-κN)(3-hydroxy-benzoato-κO)nickel(II)] bis-(1H-benzimidazole-κN)bis-(3-hy-droxy-benzoato-κO)nickel(II) hexa-hydrate.
abstract: The title compound, [Ni(2)(C(7)H(5)O(3))(4)(C(7)H(6)N(2))(4)][Ni(C(7)H(5)O(3))(2)(C(7)H(6)N(2))(2)]·6H(2)O, is a mononuclear/dinuclear nickel(II) cocrystal, the two mol-ecular species inter-acting through hydrogen bonds that involve the uncoordinated water mol-ecules. In the mononuclear species, the Ni(II) ion, located on an inversion center, is coordinated by two 1H-benzimidazole (bzim) ligands and two 3-hydroxy-benzoate (hba) anions in a square-planar geometry. In the centrosymmetric dinuclear species, the Ni(II) ion is coordinated by two bzim ligands and three hba anions in a square-pyramidal geometry; of the two independent hba anions, one bridges two Ni(II) ions with both carboxylate and hydroxyl groups whereas the other coordin-ates in a unidentate manner to the Ni(II) ion. The apical Ni-O(hydrox-yl) bond is 0.39 Å longer than the basal Ni-O(carbox-yl) bonds. The face-to-face separation of 3.326 (9) Å indicates the existence of π-π stacking between parallel bzim ligands of adjacent dinuclear entities. Extensive N-H⋯O and O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds help to stabilize the crystal structure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Jing-Jing
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Nie
authors.forename: Jian-Rong
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: Duan-Jun
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Xu