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Construction and Systematical Symmetric Studies of a Series of Supramolecular Clusters with Binary or Ternary Ammonium Triphenylacetates
Published on: February 15, 2016
catena-Poly[[(acetato-kappa(2)O,O')triaquabarium(II)]-mu3-acetato-kappa(4)O:O,O':O']
Eleonora Freire1, Ricardo Baggio
1Departamento de Física, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica and CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Abstract:
The present form of barium acetate, formulated as [Ba(C(2)H(3)O(2))(2)(H(2)O)(3)](n), is the largest reported hydrate of the salt and this leads to a distinct structural behaviour setting it apart from the rest of the family. The compound is a linear polymer with a nine-coordinate Ba(O(aqua))(3)(O(acetate))(6) monomer unit. The non-H part of the structure is ordered according to C2/m symmetry, while the disordered water H atoms only abide by this symmetry in a statistical sense. Each molecule is halved by a mirror plane bisecting the Ba centre, one water molecule and one acetate ligand, while containing the other acetate ligand. The chains are interconnected by a disordered water-water/acetate O-H...O hydrogen-bonding network involving all water H atoms. The structure and stability of this phase are compared with the other known acetates of barium which differ in the degree of hydration.
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