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1School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou 510275, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
In the title compound, hexakis(1,2-dihydro-1,5-dimethyl-2-phenyl-3H-pyrazol-3-one-O)terbium(III) triperchlorate, [Tb(C(11)H(12)N(2)O)(6)](ClO(4))(3), the Tb atom lies on a site of $\overline 3$ crystallographic symmetry and the unique Tb-O distance is 2.278 (2) A. One of the perchlorate anions has threefold crystallographic symmetry, while the other is disordered about a $\overline 3$ site.
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