A new organic-inorganic compound, ethyl-enedi-ammonium hexa-chlorido-stannate(IV) -anisaldehyde disolvate.

The asymmetric unit of the title organic-inorganic hybrid complex [systematic name: ethane-1,2-diaminium hexa-chlorido-stannate(IV)-4-meth-oxy-benz-alde-hyde (1/2)], (CHN)[SnCl]·2CHO, contains one half of an ethyl-enedi-ammonium cation, one half of an [SnCl] anion and one -anisaldehyde mol-ecule. Both the organic cation and the quasi-regular octa-hedral inorganic anion are located about inversion centres. The organic cations and [SnCl] anions lie in layers parallel to the plane with -anisaldehyde mol-ecules occupying the space between the layers. A network of classical N-H⋯Cl and N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds exists between the ethyl-enedi-ammonium cations and the [SnCl] anions and -anisaldehyde mol-ecules. These inter-actions, together with non-classical C-H⋯O inter-actions between the ethyl-enedi-ammonium cations and the -anisaldehyde mol-ecules, serve to hold the structure together. The crystal studied was refined as a two-component twin.