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The crystal and molecular structure of the title compound, C16H24CuN6S4, is reported. The crystals are monoclinic: space groupP21/c,Z=4,a=13.230(3),b=11.518(9),c=16.269(6) Å,β=95.07(2)°. The structure was solved by the heavy-atom method, and refined by full-matrix least squares toR=0.059 for 1907 unique diffractometer data. The anions have approximately 222 (D 2) symmetry, with an angle of 41.14(1)° between the normals to planes of the ligands. The amino atoms of the cations have an approximate tetrahedral configuration. The anions are well separated from each other, the closest Cu-Cu distance being 7.811 (2) Å. The anionic units can be considered as being stacked alongb in columns. The metal atoms are not collinear along the stack axis, but form a kind of kinked chain.
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Mahadevan, C., Seshasayee, M. Crystal and molecular structure of bis(tetramethyl-ammonium)bis(maleonitriledithiolato)cuprate(II). Structure of C16H24CuN6S4 . Journal of Crystallographic and Spectroscopic Research 14, 215–226 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01161159
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