Jca. Boeyens et Mj. Vandermerwe, THE NONEXISTENT CRYSTALS OF MACROCYCLIC NICKEL(III) - STRUCTURE OF THE COBALT(III) COMPLEX OF 1,4,7-TRIAZACYCLONONANE-N,N',N''-TRIACETATE, Inorganic chemistry, 36(17), 1997, pp. 3779
Reinvestigation of the structure reported previously as the Ni(II) com
plex of TCNTA. by EDS analysis and crystallographic refinement, failed
to confirm the presence of nickel and indicated a cobalt complex inst
ead. It is inferred that the crystal of interest. which appeared over
a period of months from a nitric acid solution of Ni(II) and the TCNTA
ligand, was formed by slow crystallization of cobalt impurities to fo
rm a single crystal of the title compound.