Abstract
The title compound, (C(16)H(36)N)(2)[MnCl(4)]·2CH(2)Cl(2), is an ionic organic-inorganic hybride compound consisting of a tetra-butyl-ammonium cation and a tetra-chlorido-manganate(II) anion in a 2:1 stoichiometric ratio. The cation contains a central nitro-gen atom bonded to four n-butyl groups in a tetra-hedral arrangement, while the anion contains a central Mn(II) atom tetra-hedrally coordinated by four chlorido ligands. It co-crystallized with two equivalents of di-chloro-methane solvent, CH(2)Cl(2), to give the following empirical formula: [(C(4)H(9))(4)N](2)[MnCl(4)]·(CH(2)Cl(2))(2). The crystal structure is mainly stabilized by Coulombic inter-actions.