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ISSN: 2053-2296

October 2000 issue

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Cover illustration: A dicationic gallium-oxo-hydroxide cage compound. Displacement ellipsoids are shown at the 35% probability level. See Swenson, Dagorne & Jordan [Acta Cryst. (2000), C56, 1213-1215].

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The title quaternary oxide, trisodium dicalcium tantalum hexaoxide, is isostructural with Li3Ni2TaO6, a partially ordered rock-salt phase. The Na, Ca and Ta atoms occupy octahedral sites in an orderly manner and form a cation-ordered superstructure.

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A full single-crystal structure analysis of [Ba(OH)I(H2O)4] reveals intra- and intermolecular hydrogen bonding, leading to a three-dimensional network. The compound is an intermediate between BaI2 and the gel of Ba(OH)2(H2O)x.

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The structure of K3NaSn3Se8 is composed of tritetrahedral [Sn3Se8]4− anions, which are separated by four-coordinate Na+ and eight-coordinate K+ cations.

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electronic papers (inorganic compounds)


Acta Cryst. (2000). C56, e421
doi: 10.1107/S0108270100011690
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Synthetic mansfieldite is confirmed to be a variscite-type phase. cis-AlO4(H2O)2 octahedra and AsO4 tetrahedra form a dense vertex-sharing network. The O—H⋯O hydrogen-bonding network has been elucidated.

Acta Cryst. (2000). C56, e422
doi: 10.1107/S0108270100011719
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Caesium vanadium(V) selenite contains vertex-sharing layers of distorted VO6 octahedra, capped by pyramidal selenite groups. Interlayer caesium cations complete the structure, which is isostructural with M(VO2)3(SeO3)2 (M = NH4+, K+) and Cs(VO2)3(TeO3)2.

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The title double salt was obtained from the reaction of Y(NO3)3 and K6[H4Co2Mo10O38]·5H2O at a pH of about 2.0. The [H6CoMo6O24]3− anion is a typical B-type Anderson-structure heteropolyanion.

electronic papers (metal-organic compounds)


Acta Cryst. (2000). C56, e425
doi: 10.1107/S0108270100011653
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The structure of the title compound comprises a zigzag polymer of alternating tetrakis­(μ-carboxyl­ato-O:O′)­dicopper(II) and 2-amino­pyrimidine units linked by axial Cu—N bonds, and the non-centrosymmetric structure has four unique (3-methoxy­phenyl)­acetate moieties.

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In complexes of the ligand 3,5-bis(2-pyridinyl)-1,3,4-oxa­diazole (pod), coordination is through one pyridine and one oxa­diazole N atom, i.e. it behaves as a bidentate ligand. Octahedral coordination of the Cu or Ni metal atom in the title complexes, (I) and (II), respectively, is achieved by two pod ligands and two water mol­ecules in axial positions.

Acta Cryst. (2000). C56, e429
doi: 10.1107/S0108270100011896
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The title ruthenium complex contains a monodentate (C4H9)PPh2 ligand coordinated by the P atom. Coordination about the metal centre is completed by a η6-p-cymene ligand and two Cl atoms.

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Bridging by the two thio­cyanate groups in centrosymmetric six-coordinate bis­(di­phenyl­thio­urea)­bis­(thio­cyanato)­cadmium(II) dihydrate leads to the formation of eight-membered [Cd—SCN→Cd—SCN→] rings that are linked at the metal atom to furnish chains running parallel to the a axis.

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In the title compound, the sodium ion is coordinated in a distorted octahedral manner by two carboxyl­ate O atoms and two water O atoms. Each of these water mol­ecules bridges two adjacent Na ions, resulting in two four-membered rings of the type Na–O–Na–O.

Acta Cryst. (2000). C56, e434
doi: 10.1107/S0108270100012075
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A pseudo-tetrahedral Ni complex has been formed as a result of incomplete bis-chelation of Ni2+ by L. The dihedral angle at nickel is 68.8 (1)°. A trigonal–planar LiO3 coordination is formed, with Li—O distances of 1.801 (6), 1.825 (6) and 1.842 (6) Å.

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The three title complexes, (I)–(III), are isomorphous and isostructural and have crystallographic D3 symmetry. The lanthanide metal ions are coordinated by nine O atoms in a skewed tricapped trigonal prismatic geometry.

Acta Cryst. (2000). C56, e437
doi: 10.1107/S0108270100012105
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Reaction of CuBr2 with 2,6-di­amino­pyridine in HBr solution leads to 3,5-dibromination of the pyridininium ring. The resultant cation was isolated as the [CuBr4]2− salt. The di­amino­di­bromo­pyridinium ions are planar, while the CuII ions have a distorted compressed tetrahedral coordination with C2 symmetry.

Acta Cryst. (2000). C56, e438
doi: 10.1107/S0108270100012129
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The structure consists of C7H11N2+ cations and centrosymmetric [SnCl6]2− octahedra. The octahedral [SnCl6]2− anion is hydrogen bonded via trans-Cl atoms to pyridinium N atoms from two cations forming (C7H11N2)2[SnCl6] structural units.

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The first RuIII–thz (thz is 1,3-thia­zole) complex characterized via X-ray diffraction, mer-[Ru­Cl3­(C3H3NS)3], is a potentially cytostatic compound and consists of discrete complex mol­ecules with an octahedral coordination sphere in which the metal centre is linked to three chloride ions and to three thz ligands through the N atoms. The compound was prepared from the reaction of K3RuCl6 and excess thia­zole in MeOH. The Ru—Cl and Ru—N bond distances average 2.3462 (6) and 2.0851 (19) Å, respectively.

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The structure of the title compound consists of β-[Mo8O26]4− polyanions and imidazolium cations. A γ→β conversion is produced in the presence of Cu(NO3)2·3H2O.

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The centrosymmetric [Mo4O10(OCH3)4Cl2]2− anion is built up of four edge-sharing octahedra, two MoO6 and two MoO5Cl.

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In the title complex, the Mn atom is coordinated by three N atoms and three O atoms from three pyridine­carboxyl­ate ligands in a distorted octahedral geometry. One ligand is protonated and is hydrogen bonded to the hydro­xide anion.

Acta Cryst. (2000). C56, e447
doi: 10.1107/S0108270100012488
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The title compound is a one-dimensional heterometallic coordination polymer of the zigzag-type with the molecular composition [(dmpda)Pt(isonic)2Cu(H2O)3](NO3)2, where dmpda is 2,2-di­methyl-1,3-propane­di­amine and isonic is isonicotinate. One Cu atom links two platinum complex mol­ecules through coordination to two carboxyl­ate groups from the two platinum complex units, and the polymer has repeat zigzag units in which the Cu—Pt—Cu angle is 64.9°.

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The Fe atom in the low-temperature (173 K) structure of the title metal–organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) precursor is octahedrally coordinated and the three chelate rings are found to be significantly non-planar, adopting a half-chair conformation with the Fe atom out of the plane. The structure exhibits only intramolecular C—H⋯O interactions.

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The title compound is found to exhibit a distorted trigonal–bipyramidal geometry at both SnIV atoms. The Sn—Cl—Sn angle involving the bridging chlorine ligand is 135.56 (5)°. The values of the Sn—Cl bond lengths in the bridge are 2.5704 (13) and 3.1159 (13) Å.