Aqua-(3-fluoro-benzoato-κO)(3-fluoro-benzoato-κO,O')(1,10-phenanthroline-κN,N')cobalt(II)

Abstract

In the title compound, [Co(C(7)H(4)FO(2))(2)(C(12)H(8)N(2))(H(2)O)], the Co(II) ion is coordinated by two O atoms from one 3-fluoro-benzoate (fb) ligand and one O atom from another fb ligand, two N atoms from the 1,10-phenanthroline ligand and a water mol-ecule in a distorted octa-hedral geometry. An intra-molecular O-H⋯O hydrogen bond occurs. Inter-molecular O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link pairs of mol-ecules into centrosymmetric dimers. Weak inter-molecular C-H⋯O and C-H⋯F hydrogen bonds and π-π inter-actions between the aromatic rings [shortest centroid-centroid distance = 3.4962 (2) Å] further stabilize the crystal packing.

Fig. 1.

The molecular structure of (I), with displacement ellipsoids drawn at the 30% probability level.

Fig. 2.

The dimer structure of (I). All H atoms have been omitted for clarity. The dashed lines indicate the O—H···O hydrogen bonds.