Crystal structure of bis-(benzyl-amine-κN)[5,10,15,20-tetra-kis-(4-chloro-phen-yl)porphyrinato-κ(4) N]iron(II) n-hexane monosolvate

Selma Dhifaoui; Wafa Harhouri; Anna Bujacz; Habib Nasri

doi:10.1107/S2056989015024135

Crystal structure of bis-(benzyl-amine-κN)[5,10,15,20-tetra-kis-(4-chloro-phen-yl)porphyrinato-κ(4) N]iron(II) n-hexane monosolvate

Acta Crystallogr E Crystallogr Commun. 2016 Jan 1;72(Pt 1):102-5. doi: 10.1107/S2056989015024135.

Authors

Selma Dhifaoui¹, Wafa Harhouri¹, Anna Bujacz², Habib Nasri¹

Affiliations

¹ Laboratoire de Physico-chimie des Matériaux, Faculté des Sciences de Monastir, Avenue de l'environnement, 5019 Monastir, University of Monastir, Tunisia.
² X-Ray Analysis Laboratory, Institute of Technical Biochemistry, Lodz University of Technology, Stefanowskiego 4/10, 90-924 Lodz, Poland.

Abstract

In the title compound, [Fe(II)(C44H24Cl4N4)(C6H5CH2NH2)2]·C6H14 or [Fe(II)(TPP-Cl)(BzNH2)2]·n-hexane [where TPP-Cl and BzNH2 are 5,10,15,20-tetra-kis-(4-chloro-phen-yl)porphyrinate and benzyl-amine ligands, respectively], the Fe(II) cation lies on an inversion centre and is octa-hedrally coordinated by the four pyrrole N atoms of the porphyrin ligand in the equatorial plane and by two amine N atoms of the benzyl-amine ligand in the axial sites. The crystal structure also contains one inversion-symmetric n-hexane solvent mol-ecule per complex mol-ecule. The average Fe-Npyrrole bond length [1.994 (3) Å] indicates a low-spin complex. The crystal packing is sustained by N-H⋯Cl and C-H⋯Cl hydrogen-bonding inter-actions and by C-H⋯π inter-molecular inter-actions, leading to a three-dimensional network structure.

Keywords: UV–vis spectra; benzylamine; crystal structure; hydrogen bonding; iron(II)–porphyrin.