Abstract
The synthesis and crystal structure of a new triazole-based N-heterocyclic carbene iridium(I) cationic complex with a tetra-fluorido-borate counter-anion and solvating di-chloro-methane, [Ir(C8H12)(C7H13N3)(C18H15P)]BF4·1.5CH2Cl2, is reported. The IrI center of the cationic complex has a distorted square-planar conformation, formed by a bidentate cyclo-octa-1,5-diene (COD) ligand, an N-heterocyclic carbene, and a triphenylphosphane ligand. There are weak hydrogen-bonding inter-actions between C-H groupings of the iridium complex and F atoms of the [BF4]- counter-ions. The atoms of the COD ligand are disordered over two sets of sites in a 0.65:0.35 ratio and two of the F atoms of the anion are disordered over adjacent sites in a 0.6:0.4 ratio. One of the di-chloro-methane solvent mol-ecules is disordered about an inversion center with 0.5 occupancy.