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Crystal Structure of a Trinuclear Mercury(II) Cyanide Complex of Tetramethylthiourea, [{(Tetramethylthiourea)2Hg(CN)2}2·Hg(CN)2]

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The title compound was prepared by reacting mercury(II) cyanide and tetramethylthiourea (Tmtu) in the molar ratio of 1:1.75. It was characterized by IR and NMR (1H and 13C) spectroscopy, and X-ray crystallography. The appearance of a band around 2,200 cm−1 in IR and a resonance around 145 ppm in 13C NMR indicated the binding of cyanide to mercury(II). The crystal structure of the title complex, [{(tetramethylthiourea)2Hg(CN)2}2·Hg(CN)2] (1) consists of two independent [(Tmtu)2Hg(CN)2] moieties bridged by a Hg(CN)2 unit. The mercury atom in [(Tmtu)2Hg(CN)2] unit is coordinated to two thione sulfur atoms of Tmtu and to two cyanide carbon atoms in a distorted tetrahedral mode.

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The title compound, [{(tetramethylthiourea)2Hg(CN)2}2·Hg(CN)2] (1) was prepared by reacting mercury(II) cyanide and tetramethylthiourea (Tmtu) in the molar ratio of 1.75:1. It was characterized by IR and NMR (1H and 13C) spectroscopy, and x-ray crystallography. The appearance of a band around 2200 cm−1 in IR and a resonance around 145 ppm in 13C NMR indicated the binding of cyanide to mercury(II). The crystal structure of the complex consists of two independent [(Tmtu)2Hg(CN)2] moieties bridged by a Hg(CN)2 unit. The mercury atom in [(Tmtu)2Hg(CN)2] unit is coordinated to two thione sulfur atoms of Tmtu and to two cyanide carbon atoms in a distorted tetrahedral mode.

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Financial support from Pakistan Council for Science and Technology Islamabad, Pakistan, and from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Institute of Physics, University of Neuchâtel, 2009, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

    Muhammad Altaf & Helen Stoeckli-Evans

  2. Department of Chemistry, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, 54890, Pakistan

    Saeed Ahmad

  3. Department of Chemistry, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia

    Anvarhusein A. Isab & Abdul Rahman Al-Arfaj

  4. Department of Chemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Muhammad Riaz Malik & Saqib Ali

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Altaf, M., Stoeckli-Evans, H., Ahmad, S. et al. Crystal Structure of a Trinuclear Mercury(II) Cyanide Complex of Tetramethylthiourea, [{(Tetramethylthiourea)2Hg(CN)2}2·Hg(CN)2]. J Chem Crystallogr 40, 1175–1179 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10870-010-9818-3

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