Bis-(thio-cyanato-κN)[tris(pyridin-2-yl-meth-yl)amine-κ(4) N]-iron(II)

Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online. 2014 Jan 8;70(Pt 2):m35. doi: 10.1107/S1600536813034818. eCollection 2014 Feb 1.

Abstract

In the title complex, [Fe(NCS)2(C18H18N4)], the Fe(II) cation is chelated by a tris-(2-pyridyl-meth-yl)amine ligand and coordin-ated by two thio-cyanate anions in a distorted N6 octa-hedral geometry. In the crystal, weak C-H⋯S hydrogen bonds and π-π stacking inter-actions between parallel pyridine rings of adjacent mol-ecules [centroid-centroid distance = 3.653 (3) Å] link the mol-ecules into a two-dimensional supra-molecular architecture. The structure contains voids of 124 (9) Å(3), which are free of solvent molecules.