issue contents
November 2001 issue

Cover illustration: The cis-dinitratobis(1,4-oxathiane-S)palladium(II) dimer shown with 30% probability displacement ellipsoids. H atoms are shown as small spheres of arbitrary radii. See Johansson & Oskarsson [Acta Cryst. (2001), C57, 1265-1267].
inorganic compounds
A new sodium calcium germanate with the formula Na2.54Ca1.73Ge3O9 has been synthesized by the flux method. The structure consists of six-membered rings of GeO4 tetrahedra and pseudo-cubic subcells with an edge length of 3.8 Å.
Crystals of the title compounds were grown from a eutectic halide flux. They are isostructural with K4CdCl6 and contain chains of face-shared [IrO6] octahedra and [MO6] trigonal prisms (M is Ca, Mg or Zn).
The structure of K2Ag2Sn2Se6 is composed of [Ag2Sn2Se6]2− anionic chains separated by K+ cations.
The oxoantimonate K3[SbO4] has the Na3[BiO4] structure type, with chains of [SbO6] octahedra connected via common edges.