Figure 4
(a) A (rare) undisordered perchlorate anion on a threefold axis. Atoms O1 and Cl lie on this axis, O2a and O2b are symmetry equivalents of O2. (b) A (more common) disordered perchlorate anion. It still lies on a threefold axis, but there is a second orientation with atoms O1′, O2′ etc. |