title: (2,2'-Bipyridine-4,4'-dicarb-oxy-lic acid-κN,N')chlorido(2,2':6',2''-terpyridyl-κN,N',N'')ruthenium(II) perchlorate ethanol monosolvate monohydrate.
abstract: In the title compound, [RuCl(C(15)H(11)N(3))(C(12)H(8)N(2)O(4))]ClO(4)·C(2)H(5)OH·H(2)O, the geometry of the ClN(5) coordination set around the Ru(II) atom is close to octa-hedral, but distorted on account of the limited bite angles of the polypyridyl ligands. The complexes are linked by O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds between the carboxyl groups and the crystal lattice water mol-ecules into chains along [110]. Face-to-face stacking inter-actions are formed between terpyridine ligands, with inter-planar separations of 3.66 (1) and 3.42 (1) Å, and between bipyridine-4,4'-dicarb-oxy-lic acid ligands, with inter-planar separations of 3.65 (1) and 3.72 (1) Å. Three O atoms of the perchlorate ion are each disordered equally over two positions. The hy-droxy group of the ethanol mol-ecule is also disordered over two sites with refined occupancies of 0.794 (9) and 0.206 (9).
authors.affiliation: University of Southern Denmark, Department of Physics and Chemistry, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense,  Denmark.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nielsen
authors.forename: Christine J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: McKenzie
authors.forename: Andrew D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Bond