Crystal structure of 1-phenyl­imido-1-{6-[1-(phenyl­imino)­eth­yl]pyridin-2-yl}ethan-1-yl-κ(3) N,N′,N′′)iron(II)

The title iron complex, [Fe(C(21)H(19)N(3))(2)], consists of an Fe(II) atom chelated by two tridentate bis­(imino)­pyridine radical anions in a slightly distorted octa­hedral coordination environment. In the solid state, there are two independent half-mol­ecules in the asymmetric unit, and the complete mol­ecular structure is formed by applying twofold rotation symmetry with the twofold rotation axis passing through an Fe atom. In the crystal, the Fe-containing complexes are not involved in any particular direct inter­molecular inter­actions, with the shortest C—H(Ar) contacts between neighboring phenyl groups being ca 3.2 Å.