N,N,N',N'-Tetra-methyl-ethylene-diammonium tetra-chlorido-zincate

Muhammad Akhtar; Mohammed Fettouhi; Maqsood Ahmed; Islam Ullah Khan; Saeed Ahmad

doi:10.1107/S1600536813029802

N,N,N',N'-Tetra-methyl-ethylene-diammonium tetra-chlorido-zincate

Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online. 2013 Nov 6;69(Pt 12):m642. doi: 10.1107/S1600536813029802.

Authors

Muhammad Akhtar¹, Mohammed Fettouhi², Maqsood Ahmed³, Islam Ullah Khan⁴, Saeed Ahmad⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
² Department of Chemistry, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia.
³ Department of Chemistry, Islamia University, Bahawalpur, Pakistan.
⁴ Department of Chemistry, Government College College University, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.
⁵ Department of Chemistry, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore 54890, Pakistan.

Abstract

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, (C6H18N2)[ZnCl4], consists of one tetra-chlorido-zincate anion and two half-N,N,N'N'-tetra-methyl-ethylenedi-ammonium cations. Each of the two di-ammonium cations is located about an inversion center and one of them is disordered over two sets of sites in a 0.780 (17):0.220 (17) ratio. The Zn(II) atom has a slightly distorted tetra-hedral coordination environment. The cations and anions are connected via N-H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds into chains extending along [0-11].