Carbonyl(5‐chloroquinolin‐8‐olato‐κ2N,O)[tris(4‐chlorophenyl)phosphine‐κP]rhodium(I)

In the title compound, [Rh(C9H7ClNO)(C18H12Cl3P)(CO)], the phosphine ligand is trans to the N atom of the quinolinolate ligand. This indicates that changes in the electronic properties of the quinolinolate backbone have a negligible influence on the phosphine substitution. Important geometrical parameters are the quinolinolate bite angle of 80.15 (9)° and the Rh—P bond distance of 2.2478 (9) Å, the effective cone angle (ΘE) for the phosphine ligand being 165°. Quinoline ligand‐to‐ligand π‐stacking is in a tail‐to‐tail fashion with an intermolecular distance of 3.26 Å. The molecule also exhibits intramolecular C—H...Cl and C—H...O hydrogen bonds.