The asymmetric unit of the title compound, (C13H15N2S2)-[RuCl3(C10H14)], contains a 1,3-(2-thienylmethyl)-4,5-dihydroimidazolium cation and a trichlorido(eta(6)-p-cymene)ruthenate(II) anion. The thiophene rings of the cation are disordered by an 180 degrees rotation about the thiophene-CH2 bonds with occupancies of 0.847 (5)/0.153 (5) and 0.700 (5)/0.300 (5), respectively. The Ru atom exhibits a distorted octahedral coordination with the benzene ring of the p-cymene ligand formally occupying three sites and three Cl atoms occupying the other three sites. The short C-N bond lengths in the imidazoline ring indicate partial electron delocalization within the N-C-N fragment. Cation and anions are connected through five intermolecular C-H center dot center dot center dot Cl hydrogen bonds and one C-H center dot center dot center dot pi hydrogen bond, forming a three-dimensional hydrogen-bonded network.
C1 [Arslan, Hakan] Fayetteville State Univ, Dept Nat Sci, Fayetteville, NC 28301 USA.
[Arslan, Hakan] Mersin Univ, Fac Pharm, Dept Chem, TR-33169 Mersin, Turkey.
[VanDerveer, Don] Clemson Univ, Dept Chem, Clemson, SC 29634 USA.
[Oezdemir, Ismail; Guerbuez, Nevin; Goek, Yetkin] Inonu Univ, Fac Sci & Arts, Dept Chem, TR-44280 Malatya, Turkey.
[Cetinkaya, Bekir] Ege Univ, Fac Sci, Dept Chem, TR-35100 Bornova, Turkey.