Abstract
A novel polymeric complex has been synthesized by refluxing disodium acetylene dicarboxylate with tributyltin chloride in dry methanol. The solid-state structure of the complex has been determined by single-crystal X-ray analysis. The tin(IV) metal exhibits distorted trigonal bipyramidal geometry. Each carboxylate group of the ligand acts in a bidentate fashion, linking adjacent metal atoms to produce polymeric chains, which are cross-linked into a three-dimensional network.
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Acknowledgments
The first athor (SH) thanks the Higher Education Commission, Islamabad, Pakistan, for financial support under the PhD Fellowship Scheme Batch-IV (PIN Code: 074-3160-Ps4-362). Pakistan Science Foundation is acknowledged for partial support under the project PSF/Res/PGCU/Chem(436).