JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY, 2013 (SCI-Expanded)
A new Pb(II) complex, [Pb(bp)(2)(btfa)(2)] 1, has been synthesized with bathophenanthroline (bp) and benzoyltrifluoroacetone (Hbtfa) and characterized by elemental analysis IR and H-1 NMR spectroscopy as well as by thermal properties and X-ray crystallography. The coordination number of the Pb(II) ions in 1 is eight, with the PbN4O4 coordination polyhedron containing a stereochemically inactive electron lone pair with holodirected coordination spheres. In solid state, there are pi...pi, CH...F, CH...O, and F...F interactions between adjacent units to generate 3D supramolecular structure.