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Published on: December 29, 2016
Bis(tetra-phenyl-phospho-nium) tetra-sulfido-tungstate(VI)
Patricia Leyva Bailen1, Anthony V Powell, Paz Vaqueiro
1Department of Chemistry, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, Scotland.
Abstract:
The crystal structure of the title compound, (C(24)H(20)P)(2)[WS(4)], which was prepared under hydro-thermal conditions, contains tetra-phenyl-phospho-nium cations linked by supra-molecular inter-actions into chains running along the [110] and [10] directions. The [WS(4)](2-)anions, which lie on twofold axes, are located in the cavities created between the cation chains.
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