Crystal structure of germanium tetrachloride–trimethylamine, GeCl4, -NMe3

Abstract

The title compound has been examined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and crystallises in the space-group P2₁/c with Z= 4 in a unit cell of dimensions a= 6·53, b= 12·11, c= 12·70, β= 106·3°. The structure was solved from photographically estimated three-dimensional data and refined to R 0·134 (for 583 independent reflections) and consists of discrete GeCl₄,NMe₃ molecules. Each molecule may be considered to be based on trigonal-bipyramidal germanium co-ordination with the trimethylamine occupying an axial position.