Zinc-meso-tetra-p-tolylporphyrin and its chlorotoluene channel-type clathrate with π-π and C-H⋯π interaction modes stabilizing the porphyrin host lattice

Parthasarathi Dastidar*, Israel Goldberg

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Abstract

The title compound, (meso-5,10,15,20-tetra-p-tolylporphyrinato-N,N′,N″,N‴) zinc(II), [Zn(C48H36N4)], displays a high tendency to form complexes and clathrates with other components from various environ-ments, and is a useful building block for the construction of heteromolecular solids. Modes of its intermolecular assembly in the pure compound and in its clathrate with m-chlorotoluene, [Zn(C48H36N4)].C7H7Cl, have been characterized by X-ray crystal-structure analysis. The clathrate appears to be stabilized by π-π stacking and cooperative C-H⋯π interactions between the tolyl substituents and contains large interporphyrin channels extending throughout the crystal.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1976-1980
Number of pages5
JournalActa Crystallographica Section C: Crystal Structure Communications
Volume52
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Aug 1996

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