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Experimental electron diffraction intensity data from basic copper chloride CuCl2·3Cu(OH)2 in its metastable form have been used for a direct structure analysis based on the evaluation of three and four phase structure invariants. The resultant electrostatic potential maps clearly show the correct atomic positions which correspond to those determined earlier by Voronova and Vainshtein (1958) from their interpretation of Patterson maps, and also to the X-ray analysis of the isostructural CuBr2·3Cu(OH)2 carried out by Aebi in 1948.
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Dorset, D.L. Electron crystallography of inorganic compounds. Direct determination of the basic copper chloride structure CuCl2·3Cu(OH)2 . J Chem Crystallogr 24, 219–224 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01672413
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