The crystal and molecular structure of 1,1-bis(diphenylphosphino)-2,2-dimethylhydrazine
The structure of 1,1-bis(diphenylphosphino)-2,2-dimethylhydrazine, [(C6H5)2P]2NN(CH3)2 has been determined crystallographically. The compound crystallizes from n-heptane in the space group P21/c with a = 8.910(1), b = 9.686(1), c = 27.489(4) Å, and β = 102.94(2)° with four molecules per unit cell. The structure was solved from 2669 independent reflections with I > 3σ(I) and refined by block diagonal least squares methods to R = 0.032 and Rω = 0.048. Each diphenylphosphino group is bonded to the same hydrazine nitrogen and the geometry about this nitrogen is nearly planar. The average dimensions of the structure are P—C = 1.828 ± 0.005, P—N = 1.715 ± 0.014, N—N = 1.451, and N—C = 1.457 ± 0.003 Å, [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], and [Formula: see text].