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August 1996 issue

Cover illustration: The Product of Catalysed Diboration of Bis(4-methoxyphenyl)ethyne by Bis(pinacolato-O,O')diboron, see Clegg, Scott, Lesley, Marder & Norman, pages 1989-1991. Displacement ellipsoids are plotted at the 75% probability level.
inorganic compounds
(NH4)[UO2(HSeO3)(SeO3)] contains layers of UO7 pentagonal bipyramids and selenite groups, with hydrogen bonds involving the ammonium ions connecting adjacent layers.
The loosely packed structure of Cs4YbCl7 consists of layers of close-packed YbCl63− octahedra and Cs+ ions separated by layers containing the other half of the Cs+ ions and the remaining Cl− ion, which is sixfold disordered.
The metallic framework of Sr4Ga3Mo26O48 is based on infinite Mo7–Mo10–Mo7 chains and quasi-isolated monocapped octahedral Mo7 clusters which are interconnected through O atoms. The Sr2+ ions have environments derived from cuboctahedra and the Ga3+ ions are approximately tetrahedrally or octahedrally
LiCo2P3O10 and LiNi2P3O10 contain staggered chains of CoIIO6 and NiIIO6 octahedra, respectively, cross-linked by edge-sharing LiO6 groups. The P3O10 groups have both staggered and eclipsed conformations.
The {[Mo8O26(MoO4)]6−}n anion in (NH4)6[Mo9O30].5H2O has a zigzag chain structure in which two adjacent Mo8O26 moieties are linked by an MoO4 tetrahedron.
The bidentate and tridentate perchlorato groups in Yb(ClO4)3.H2O form a channelled three-dimensional network derived from that of MCl3 (M = U, Ln).
metal-organic compounds
organic compounds
addenda and errata
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Erratum to Acta Cryst. (1996), C52, 1082-1084.