Crystal Structure of the Two-Dimensional Coordination Polymer Poly[di-μ-bromido-bis-(μ-tetra-hydro-thiophene)-dicopper(I)]

The polymeric title compound, [Cu2Br2(C4H8S)2] n , CP1, represents an example of a two-dimensional coordination polymer resulting from reaction of CuBr with tetra-hydro-thio-phene (THT) in MeCN solution. The two-dimensional layers consist of two different types of rhomboid-shaped dinuclear Cu(μ2-Br)2Cu secondary building units (SBUs); one with a quite loose Cu...Cu separation of 3.3348 (10) Å and a second one with a much closer inter-metallic contact of 2.9044 (9) Å. These SBUs are inter-connected through bridging THT ligands, in which the S atom acts as a four-electron donor bridging each Cu(μ2-Br)2Cu unit in a μ2-bonding mode. In the crystal, the layers are linked by very weak C-H...·Br hydrogen bonds with H...Br distances of 2.95 Å, thus giving rise to a three-dimensional supra-molecular network.