Chlorido(pyridine-κN)(5,10,15,20-tetra-phenyl-porphyrinato-κ(4)N)cobalt(III) chloro-form hemisolvate.
In the title complex, [CoCl(C(44)H(28)N(4))(C(5)H(5)N)]·0.5CHCl(3) or [Co(III)(TPP)Cl(py)]·0.5CHCl(3) (where TPP is the dianion of tetra-phenyl-porphyrin and py is pyridine), the average equatorial cobalt-pyrrole N atom bond length (Co-N(p)) is 1.958 (7) Å and the axial Co-Cl and Co-N(py) distances are 2.2339 (6) and 1.9898 (17) Å, respectively. The tetra-phenyl-porphyrinate dianion exhibits an important nonplanar conformation with major ruffling and saddling distortions. In the crystal, mol-ecules are linked via weak C-H⋯π inter-actions. In the difference Fourier map, a region of highly disordered electron density was estimated using the SQUEEZE routine [PLATON; Spek (2009 ▶), Acta Cryst. D65, 148-155] to be equivalent to one half-mol-ecule of CHCl(3) per mol-ecule of the complex.
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