Aqua-(5,10,15,20-tetra-phenyl-porphyrin-ato-κ(4) N)cadmium(II)-18-crown-6 (1/1).

The title compound, [Cd(C44H28N4)(H2O)]·(C12H24O6), was made by the reaction of the [Cd(TPP)] with an excess of 18-crown-6 in chloro-benzene (where TPP is tetra-phenyl-porphyrinate). The Cd(II) cation is chelated by a TPP anion and coordinated by a water mol-ecule in a distorted N4O square-pyramidal geometry, the Cd(II) cation being displaced by 0.7533 (9) Å from the mean plane of four N atoms of TPP anion. The porphyrin core presents a significant distortion, the maximum atomic deviation from the 24-atom mean plane is 0.1517 (2) Å. The 18-crown-6 mol-ecule is linked with the Cd(II) complex via classical O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds. In the crystal, weak C-H⋯π inter-actions link the complex and 18-crown-6 mol-ecules into a three-dimensional supra-molecular architecture.