(2,5-Dimethylimidazole){N,N′,N′′,N′′′-[porphyrin-5,10,15,20-tetrayltetra(2,1-phenylene)]tetrakis(pyridine-3-carboxamide)}manganese(II) chlorobenzene disolvate

In the title compound, [Mn(C68H44N12O4)(C5H8N2)]·2C6H5Cl, the central MnII ion is coordinated by four pyrrole N atoms of the porphyrin core in the basal sites and one N atom of the 2,5-dimethylimidazole ligand in the apical site. Two chlorobenzene solvent molecules are also present in the asymmetric unit. Due to the apical imidazole ligand, the Mn atom is displaced out of the 24-atom porphyrin mean plane by 0.66 Å. The average Mn—Np (p = porphyrin) bond length is 2.143 (8) Å, and the axial Mn—NIm (Im = 2,5-dimethylimidazole) bond length is 2.171 (8) Å. The structure displays intermolecular and intramolecular N—H...O, N—H...N, C—H...O and C—H...N hydrogen bonding. The crystal studied was refined as a two-component inversion twin.