Tris(2,6-dibenzoyl-4-methyl-phenolato-κ(2) O (1),O (2))cobalt(III).
In the title compound, [Co(C21H15O3)3], the Co(III) ion is coordinated in a slightly distorted octa-hedral environment by three phenolate O and three benzoyl O atoms from three monoanionic bidentate 2,6-dibenzoyl-4-methyl-phenolate ligands. The dihedral angles between the mean planes of the central phenolate rings and the peripheral phenyl rings are 46.62 (10)/87.06 (9), 60.44 (8)/23.13 (8) and 46.49 (6)/65.29 (6)°. The crystal packing is stabilized by weak inter-molecular C-H⋯O inter-actions. Mol-ecules are further linked by two π-π [centroid-centroid distances = 3.8612 (14) and 3.9479 (14) Å] and four C-H⋯π inter-actions, forming a three-dimensional network.
Department of Material Science and Metallurgical Engineering, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal 462 051, India.
Abhishek K
AK
Gupta
Department of Material Science and Metallurgical Engineering, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal 462 051, India.
Sanjay
S
Srivastava
Department of Chemistry, Howard University, 525 College Street NW, Washington, DC 20059, USA.
Ray J
RJ
Butcher