Crystal Structure of 1,1-Dibutyl-1,1-bis[(4-methyl-1-piperidinyl)dithiocarbamato)] Tin(IV)

Zia-ur-Rehman^a, S. Shahzadi^a, S. Ali^a,*, A. Badshah^a and G.-X. Jin^b

^aDepartment of Chemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320 Pakistan

^bDepartment of Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433 People’s Republic of China

                 (Received 6 December 2005, Accepted 12 February 2006)

       The dibutyltin(IV) complex of 4-methyl-1-piperidinedithioic acid has been synthesized and characterized by X-ray diffraction. It was found that tin atom has distorted tetragonal geometry with the space group P-1.

 Keywords: X-ray structure, Organotin(IV), Dithiocarbamate, Monodentate, Distorted tetragonal