title: (Acetonitrile)[bis-(2-pyridylmeth-yl)amine]bis-(perchlorato)copper(II).
abstract: In the title compound, [Cu(ClO(4))(2)(C(12)H(13)N(3))(C(2)H(3)N)], the Cu(II) atom is six-coordinate in a Jahn-Teller distorted octahedral geometry, with coordination by the tridentate chelating ligand, an acetonitrile mol-ecule, and two axial perchlorate anions. The tridentate ligand bis-(2-pyridylmeth-yl)amine chelates meridionally and equatorially while an acetonitrile mol-ecule is coordinated at the fourth equatorial site. The two perchlorate anions are disordered with site occupancy factors of 0.72/0.28. The amine H is involved in intra-molecular hydrogen bonding to the perchlorate O atoms and there are extensive but weak inter-molecular C-H⋯O inter-actions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Howard University, 525 College Street NW, Washington, DC 20059, USA.
authors.forename: Ray J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Butcher
authors.forename: Yohannes T
authors.initials: YT
authors.lastname: Tesema
authors.forename: Teshome B
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Yisgedu
authors.forename: Yilma
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gultneh