| Abstract: | Single crystals of Ag(Nic)2(NO3) were obtained from an aqueous solution of silver nitrate and nicotine as plate‐like colourless crystals. The crystal structure (monoclinic, P21, Z = 2, a = 933.3(2), b = 1136.8(2), c = 1024.3(2) pm, β = 94.49(2)°) consists of helical chains in which one nicotine molecule bridges with both the pyridine‐N and the pyrrol‐N coordinating and with a second nicotine molecule terminally coordinating with the pyridine‐N. A monodentate nitrate‐O is completing the coordination sphere of Ag+ to a distorted tetrahedron. Ag–N distances (229‐240 pm) attest for a rather strong attraction of the nicotine molecules to Ag(I) and thereby constitute essentially a one‐dimensional, helical coordination polymer according to the formulation Ag(Nic1)2/2(Nic2)1/1(NO3)1/1. |
