Bis[μ-1,2-bis-(1H-imidazol-1-ylmeth-yl)benzene-κN:N]disilver(I) 3-carboxyl-ato-4-hydroxy-benzene-sulfonate methanol solvate trihydrate.

In the title compound, [Ag(2)(C(14)H(14)N(4))(2)](C(7)H(4)O(6)S)·CH(3)OH·3H(2)O, the complex dication has a binuclear structure in which each Ag(I) ion is two-coordinated in a slightly distorted linear coordination geometry. The two Ag(I) atoms are bridged by two 1,2-bis-[(1H-imidazol-1-yl)meth-yl]benzene (IBI) ligands, forming a 22-membered ring. In the dication, π-π inter-actions are observed between the imidazole rings with centroid-centroid distances of 3.

Bis[μ-1,2-bis-(1H-imidazol-1-ylmethyl)benzene-κN:N]disilver(I) bis-(4-amino-2,5-dichloro-benzene-sulfonate) tetra-hydrate.

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, [Ag(2)(C(14)H(14)N(4))(2)](C(6)H(4)Cl(2)NO(3)S)(2)·4H(2)O, contains one-half of each of two independent dicationic units, two 4-amino-2,5-dichloro-benzene-sulfonate anions and four water mol-ecules. Each centrosymmetric dicationic unit has a dinuclear structure in which two Ag(I) atoms are bridged by two 1,2-bis-(1H-imidazol-1-yl-meth-yl)benzene ligands in a slightly distorted linear coordination geometry. The 4-amino-2,5-dichloro-benzene-sulfonate anion does not coordinate with the Ag(I) center, acting only as a counteranion.