PREPARATION AND CRYSTAL-STRUCTURES OF 2 FORMS OF TRANS[CUCL2(N(H)SPH2)(2)] - AN UNUSUAL EXAMPLE OF SQUARE PLANAR PSEUDO-TETRAHEDRAL ISOMERISM IN A NEUTRAL COPPER(II) COMPLEX/
Pf. Kelly et al., PREPARATION AND CRYSTAL-STRUCTURES OF 2 FORMS OF TRANS[CUCL2(N(H)SPH2)(2)] - AN UNUSUAL EXAMPLE OF SQUARE PLANAR PSEUDO-TETRAHEDRAL ISOMERISM IN A NEUTRAL COPPER(II) COMPLEX/, Journal of the Chemical Society. Dalton transactions, (17), 1997, pp. 2853-2854
At ambient temperatures, in acetonitrile, S,S-diphenylsulfimide reacte
d with CuCl2 (molar ratio 2:1) to give trans-[CuCl2{N(H)SPh2}(2)]; dep
ending upon the crystallisation technique this can be isolated as eith
er blue (perfect square-planar geometry) or green (pseudo-tetrahedral)
crystals which do not interconvert in the solid state.