Mirror-plane disorder in a nickel chloride Schiff base complex: a suitable case study for crystallographic instruction
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Acta Crystallographica Section C: Structural Chemistry
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The nickel chloride complex of the Schiff base N2,N20-propanediylbis(2,3-butanedione-2-imine-3-oxime), namely, chlorido(3,9-dimethylundeca-3,8-diene-2,10-dione 10-oxime 2-oximato- 4N,N0,N00,N000)nickel(II), [NiCl(C 11 H19 N4 O2 )], at 100 K crystallizes in the orthorhombic space group Cmce. The structure exhibits mirror disorder of the main molecule that is not present in the bromide analogue. The relatively small number of unique reflections in the data set and the disorder imposed by the crystallographic mirror plane present a challenging educational case study.
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This article was originally published in Acta Crystallographica Section C: Structural Chemistry. The version of record is available at: https://doi.org/10.1107/S2053229622000973
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Chang, Hsuan, Wen-Ching Chen, Jiun-Shian Shen, Tiow-Gan Ong, Vincent C.-C. Wang, and Glenn P. A. Yap. “Mirror-Plane Disorder in a Nickel Chloride Schiff Base Complex: A Suitable Case Study for Crystallographic Instruction.” Acta Crystallographica Section C Structural Chemistry 78, no. 3 (March 1, 2022): 137–40. https://doi.org/10.1107/S2053229622000973.