2 )] is created by one La III ion, three deprotonated N-{bis[methyl(phenyl)amino]phosphoryl}benzene-sulfonamidate (L À ) ligands and one 1,10-phenanthroline (Phen) molecule. Each La III ion is eight-coordinated (6O+2N) by three phosphoryl O atoms, three sulfonyl O atoms of three L À ligands and two N atoms of the chelating Phen ligand, leading to the formation of six-and five-membered metallacycles, respectively. The lanthanum coordination polyhedron has a bicapped trigonalprismatic geometry. 'Sandwich-like' intramolecular -stacking interactions are observed between the 1,10-phenanthroline ligand and two benzene rings of two different L À ligands. The phenyl rings of L À that are not involved in the stacking interactions show minor positional disorder. Molecules form layers parallel to the (010) plane due to weak C-HÁ Á ÁO intermolecular hydrogen bonds. Unidentified highly disordered solvate molecules that occupy ca 400 Å 3 large voids have been omitted from the refinement model.
Chemical context-Diketone derivatives have been the topic of investigations in many different branches of the chemical science, such as organic, coordination, bio-and theoretical chemistry. Of special interest have been carbacylamidophosphates (CAPh), containing the functional fragment C(O)NHP(O), because of their properties as extractants (Morgalyuk et al., 2005;Safiulina et al., 2015), urease inhibitors (Jaroslav & Swerdloff, 1985), enzyme inhibitors (Grimes et al., 2008;Adams et al., 2002), their antibacterial properties (Oroujzadeh et al., 2017) and anticancer activity (Kovalchyk et al., 1991;Amirkhanov et al., 1995). The presence of the phosphoryl group gives them a high affinity towards highly charged metal ions, and these types of compounds are used in the coordination chemistry of lanthanides and actinides (Litsis et al., 2010(Litsis et al., , 2017Kariaka et al., 2013). Many efforts have been devoted to the synthesis of another type of structural analogs of -diketones -sulfonylamidophosphates (SAPh) with the structural fragment S(O) 2 NHP(O). These types of compounds were first synthesized by Kirsanov (Kirsanov & Shevchenko, 1954) and some have since been used as bactericidal agents in medicine and toxicology (Xu & Angell, 2000), while others have found use as pesticides (Kishino & Saito, 1979). In addition, these compounds are potentially bidentate O,O-donor chelating ISSN 2056-9890 ligands for metal ions, similar to other deprotonated phosphorylic ligand derivatives (Znovjyak et al., 2015;Amirkhanov et al., 2014;Litsis et al., 2016;Shatrava et al., 2016a). For details of the coordination chemistry of phosphorylic ligands in molecular form, see Gholivand et al. (2012Gholivand et al. ( , 2014, Yizhak et al. (2013) and Shatrava et al. (2016b).Recently, we reported the preparation and study of the coordination properties of several representatives of sulfonylamidophosphates:methyl ( Knowledge of the crystal structure is an essential part of understanding the luminescent properties of these types of lanthanide complexes. In this...