title: Bis[tris-(4-fluoro-phen-yl)phosphine-κP](tropolonato-κO,O')copper(I).
abstract: The title compound, [Cu(C(7)H(5)O(2))(C(18)H(12)F(3)P)(2)], a copper(I) tris-(4-fluoro-phen-yl)phosphine tropolonate derivative, is the first tropolonate complex with fluorinated aryl-phosphine ligands. The Cu(I) atom has a distorted tetra-hedral coordination; the most important geometrical parameters of the mol-ecule are: Cu-P = 2.2377 (10) and 2.2335 (15) Å, Cu-O = 2.084 (2) and 2.082 (2) Å, O-Cu-O = 77.72 (10)°, P-Cu-P = 128.82 (4)° and O-C-C-O = -2.1 (5)°.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa.
authors.forename: Gideon
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Steyl