title: Bis(2-chloro-1,10-phenanthroline-κN,N')(thio-cyanato-κN)zinc (2-chloro-1,10-phenanthroline-κN,N')tris-(thio-cyanato-κN)zincate.
abstract: The asymmetric unit of the title compound, [Zn(NCS)(C(12)H(7)ClN(2))(2)][Zn(NCS)(3)(C(12)H(7)ClN(2))], contains two cations and two anions. In the cations, the Zn(II) ions have distorted trigonal-bipyramidal environments formed by four N atoms from two 2-chloro-1,10-phenanthroline (cphen) ligands and one N atom from a thio-cyanate ligand. The Zn(II) atoms in the complex anions also have distorted trigonal-bipyramidal environments, formed by two N atoms from a cphen ligand and three N atoms from three thio-cyanato ligands. The crystal packing exhibits π-π inter-actions between the rings of the cphen ligands [shortest centroid-centroid distance = 3.586 (5) Å] and short inter-molecular S⋯Cl [3.395 (5) Å] and S⋯S [3.440 (4) Å] contacts.
authors.forename: Qing Hua
authors.initials: QH
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Shu Lian
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Yan Hui
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Chi
authors.forename: Jing Min
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Shi