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Kenneth W Muir1, David G Morris, Cindy OngWoei Chii
1Department of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland. ken@chem.gla.ac.uk
Abstract:
In the title compound, hexa-micro-chloro-dichlorotetrakis(N-trimethylammonio-p-toluenesulfonamidate-kappa(2)N,O)tetramercury(II), [Hg[Me(3)N(+)N(-)SO(2)C(6)H(4)CH(3)-p]Cl(2)](4) or [Hg(4)Cl(8)(C(10)H(16)N(2)O(2)S)(4)], four nearly linear and parallel Cl-Hg-Cl units associate through pairwise Hg.Cl interactions of 3.1-3.2 A. Each Hg atom is also coordinated through N and O atoms to a ylide molecule. The available structural data indicate that coordination of a sulfonyl-stabilized nitrogen ylide to a metal atom (Hg or Ag) has no detectable effect on its geometry.
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