Bis[(4-methyl-phen-yl)di-phenyl-phosphine-κ P](nitrito-κ2 O, O')silver(I)

Kariska Potgieter; Frederick P Malan; Oyekunle Azeez Alimi; Reinout Meijboom

doi:10.1107/S2414314622007714

Bis[(4-methyl-phen-yl)di-phenyl-phosphine-κ P](nitrito-κ² O, O')silver(I)

IUCrdata. 2022 Aug 12;7(Pt 8):x220771. doi: 10.1107/S2414314622007714. eCollection 2022 Aug.

Authors

Kariska Potgieter¹, Frederick P Malan², Oyekunle Azeez Alimi¹, Reinout Meijboom¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Johannesburg, PO Box 524, Auckland Park, 2006, Johannesburg, South Africa.
² Department of Chemistry, University of Pretoria, Lynnwood Road, Hatfield, Pretoria, 0002, South Africa.

Abstract

The title Ag^I complex, [Ag(NO₂)(C₁₉H₁₇P)₂], reveals a distorted pseudo-trigonal-planar shape around the Ag^I atom geometry resulting from the coordination of two phosphine ligands, as well as a nitrito-O,O' ligand coordinating to the silver(I) atom through the oxygen atoms; in this description, the two oxygen atoms are assumed to occupy one position, forming an acute O-Ag-O angle of 51.44 (9)°. The plane resulting from the NO₂ coordination to Ag is nearly perpendicular to the plane from the coordination of the phosphine-P atoms to Ag [dihedral angle = 86.43 (9)°].

Keywords: crystal structure; diphenyl-p-tolylphosphine; nitrite; silver(I) complex.

Grants and funding

Funding for this research was provided by: National Research Foundation (grant No. 138280).