A novel zinc complex containing three simple imidazole rings as a model compound for carbonic anhydrase and as a rare model for the carboxylate–imidazole–zinc triad interactions frequently observed in zinc enzymes has been made and its structure determined by X-ray diffraction in which the zinc atom has a distorted tetrahedral geometry.
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