Av. Sienkiewicz et Aa. Kapshuk, THE CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE OF THE TETRAMERIC ADDUCT OF ANTIMONY-TRICHLORIDE AND PHOSPHORYL ISOTHIOCYANATE, [SBCL3,CENTER-DOT-OP(NCS)(3)](4), Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung. B, A journal of chemical sciences, 49(4), 1994, pp. 441-444
The crystal and molecular structure of the tetrameric complex of the c
omposition [SbCl3.OP(NCS)(3)](4), synthesized from SbCl3 and OP(NCS)(3
) in CCl4 was determined by X-ray crystallography [I (4) over bar 3 m
space group, cubic system with a = 13.927(4) Angstrom]. The complex ex
hibits a tetranuclear ''cage'' structure with a [Sb4O4] core which con
sists of mu(3)-bridging oxygen and six coordinate antimony(III) atoms;
the Sb-O distance, 3.060 Angstrom, is exceptionally long.