title: (2-Hydroxy-benzoato-κO)[tris-(1-methyl-benzimidazol-2-ylmethyl-κN)amine-κN]cobalt(II) perchlorate dimethyl-formamide sesquisolvate.
abstract: In the title complex, [Co(C(7)H(5)O(3))(C(27)H(27)N(7))]ClO(4)·1.5C(3)H(7)NO, the Co(II) ion is five-coordinated by four N atoms from a tris-(N-methyl-benzimidazol-2-ylmeth-yl)amine (Mentb) ligand and one O atom from a salicylate ligand in a distorted trigonal-bipyramidal geometry with approximate mol-ecular C(3) symmetry. The perchlorate ion is disordered over two sites with equal occupancy. One dimethyl-formamide solvent mol-ecule lies on a general position and is disordered over two coplanar orientations with equal occupancy. A second dimethyl-formamide mol-ecule is disordered about a twofold rotation axis. There is an intra-molecular O-H⋯O hydrogen bond in the cation.
authors.affiliation: School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou 730070, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Xuyang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.forename: Xingcai
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Kaitong
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Huilu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wu