Crystal structure of potassium hydrogen bis-((E)-2-{4-[3-(thio-phen-3-yl)acrylo-yl]phen-oxy}acetate).

The synthesis and spectroscopic data of (E)-2-{4-[3-(thio-phen-3-yl)acrylo-yl]phen-oxy}acetic acid are described. Crystallization from an ethanol-water mixture resulted in the title compound, C(30)H(23)KO(8)S(2) or [K(C(15)H(11)O(4)S)(C(15)H(12)O(4)S)] (n) , containing one mol-ecule of the acid and one mol-ecule of the potassium salt in the asymmetric unit. Both mol-ecules share the H atom between their carboxyl groups and a potassium ion. The C=C bonds display an E configuration. The thio-phene and phenyl rings in the two mol-ecules are inclined by 43.3†(2) and 22.7†(2)°. The potassium ion is octa-hedrally coordinated by six O atoms. This distorted octa-hedron shares on opposite sides two oxygen atoms with inversion-related octa-hedra, resulting in chains of octa-hedra running in the [010] direction, which form ladder-like chains by C-H⋯π inter-actions. A Hirshfeld surface analysis indicates that the highest contributions to the surface contacts arise from inter-actions in which H atoms are involved, with the most important contribution being from H⋯H (31.6 and 31.9% for the two mol-ecules) inter-actions.