Structural studies in the ruthenium-dithiocarbamate system. Part I. Crystal structure of tris(morpholyldithiocarbamato)ruthenium(III)-2.5 chloroform

The crystal structure of the title compound has been determined by the heavy-atom method from X-ray diffractometer data and refined by least-squares to R 0.11 for 6 499 reflections. Crystals are triclinic, space group P1, a = 17.630(2), b = 17.893(2), c = 13.955(2) Å, α = 94.25(1), β = 108.68(1), γ = 120.31(1)°, Z = 2. The geometry of the complex molecule is conventional; the structure is of interest in establishing the nature of chloroform-dithiocarbamate interactions, the hydrogen atom of each chloroform being hydrogen-bonded to the sulphur atoms of various ligands.