Chloridobis(2-chloro-benz-yl)(quinolin-8-olato-κN,O)tin(IV)

The Sn(IV) atom in the three independent mol-ecules of the title compound, [Sn(C(7)H(6)Cl)(2)(C(9)H(6)NO)Cl], is N,O-chelated by the quinolin-8-olate anion and exists in a cis-C(2)SnNOCl trigonal-bipyramidal geometry; the O atom of the anion and the two benzyl C atoms lie in the equatorial plane.