Crystal structure of a new mixed-metal coordination polymer consisting of NiII piperidine-dithiocarbamate and pentanuclear CuI—I cluster units
A new heterometallic CuI–NiII coordination polymer, poly[[tetra-μ3-iodido-μ2-iodido-bis(μ3-piperidine-1-dithiocarbamato)propionitrilepentacopper(I)nickel(II)] chloroform monosolvate], {[CuI 5NiIII5(C6H10NS2)2(C3H5N)]·CHCl3} n , has been synthesized and structurally characterized. This coordination polymer consists of an NiII mononuclear unit of NiII(Pip-dtc)2 (Pip-dtc− is piperidine-1-dithiocarbamate) and a pentanuclear copper(I) cluster unit of Cu5I5(CH3CH2CN). The NiII ion, which lies on an inversion centre, is surrounded by four S atoms in a square-planar coordination geometry while all CuI ions have distorted tetrahedral coordination geometries. In the pentanuclear copper(I) cluster unit, a mirror plane passes through one CuI ion and three I ions. All the S atoms in NiII(Pip-dtc) are also coordinated by the CuI ions, forming an infinite zigzag chain structure along the b-axis direction. The chains are weakly connected by solvent CHCl3 molecules via Cl...I [3.653 (1) Å] and Cl...S [3.4370 (1) Å] short-contact interactions.