Crystal and molecular structure of trans-dichlorobis-(N-methylsalicylaldiminato)molybdenum(IV)

Abstract

The title compound crystallizes in space group P2₁/c with a= 6·429(6), b= 13·619(14), c= 10·047(10)Å, β= 107·88(1)°, Z= 2. The structure has been determined by Patterson and Fourier methods and refined to R 0·057 from three-dimensional diffractometer data (1325 observed reflections). Its structure consists of discrete monomeric units which are required crystallographically to be centrosymmetric. The two chlorine atoms are in a trans arrangement and the bond distances Mo–Cl, Mo–O, and Mo–N are respectively 2·39, 1·95, and 2·14 Å.