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Title: X-ray diffraction investigation of crystals of bis(nitrosodicyano-methanido)tetrakis(tris(dimethylamino)phosphine oxide)ytterbium(III) nitrosodicyanomethanide, (Yb/ONC(CN/sub 2/)//sub 2//OP(N(CH/sub 3/)/sub 2/)/sub 2///sub 4/)ONC(CN)/sub 2/ (in Russian)

Journal Article · · Sov. J. Coordinat. Chem.; (United States)
OSTI ID:6509502

The crystal structure of (Yb/ONC(CN)/sub 2///sub 2//OP(N(CH/sub 3/)/sub 2/)/sub 3///sub 4/)ONC(CN)/sub 2/ has been determined by x-ray diffraction analysis (diffractomter, Mo K..cap alpha.. radiation, 4396 reflections, isotropic-anisotropic least-squares method in the full-matrix variant to R = 0.081). The parameters of the monoclinic cell are: a = 11.440(3), b = 14.728(3), c = 34.912(9) A, ..beta.. = 97.53(2)/sup 0/, V = 5832(3) A/sup 3/, d(pycn) = 1.30(1), d(x-ray) = 1.335 g/cm/sup 3/, Z = 4, space group P2/sub 1//c. The structural elements of the crystals are the (Yb/ONC(CN)/sub 2///sub 2//OP(N(CH/sub 3/)/sub 2/)/sub 3///sub 4/)/sup +/ complex cation and the outer-sphere ONC(CN)/sub 2/ group, which randomly occupies two positions. The coordination number of ytterbium is 6 (all the ligands are coordinated as monodentate ligands by means of an oxygen atom), and the coordination polyhedron is an asymmetrically elongated tetragonal bipyramid, whose axial vertices are occupied by the oxygen atoms of the ..pi..-acid ligands. The mean length of the Yb-O(OP(N(CH/sub 3/)/sub 2/)/sub 3/) bonds is 2.197(11) A. The distances from the Yb atom to the oxygen atoms of the ONC(CN)/sub 2/ groups are equal to 2.233(15) and 2.315(18) A. A special feature of the complex cation is the presence of a fourth-order inversion pseudoaxis. A discussion of the structure of the coordination polyhedron and of the phosphoryl and nitrosodicyanomethanide ligands has been conducted with the aid of literature data.

Research Organization:
T.G. Shevchenko Kiev State Univ., USSR
OSTI ID:
6509502
Journal Information:
Sov. J. Coordinat. Chem.; (United States), Vol. 11:4; Other Information: Translated from Koordinatsionnaya Khimiya; 22: No. 5, 532-539(Apr 1985)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
Russian