title: Di-μ-hydroxido-bis-[tris-(4,4,4-trifluoro-1-phenyl-acetyl-acetonato-κO,O')hafnium(IV)] dimethyl-formamide disolvate.
abstract: The binuclear molecule of the title compound, [Hf(2)(C(10)H(6)F(3)O(2))(6)(OH)(2)]·2C(3)H(7)NO, lies across an inversion centre and contains a Hf(IV) atom which is eight-coordinated and surrounded by three chelating β-diketonato tris-(4,4,4-trifluoro-1-phenyl-acetyl-acetonate (tfba(-)) ligands and two bridging OH(-) groups in a distorted square-anti-prismatic geometry. The Hf-O bond lengths vary from 2.073 (2) to 2.244 (2) Å and the O-Hf-O bite angles vary from 73.49 (9) to 75.60 (9)°. Weak O-H⋯O hydrogen-bonding inter-actions are observed between the bridging hy-droxy groups and the dimethylformamide solvent mol-ecules. The unit cell contains solvent-accessible voids of 131 Å(3), but the residual electron density in the difference Fourier map suggests no solvent mol-ecule occupies this void.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of the Free State, PO Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300,  South Africa.
authors.forename: J Augustinus
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Viljoen
authors.forename: Hendrik G
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Visser
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Roodt