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Axial versus equatorial metal-ligand distances in transition metal compounds. II. Hexanitro complexes

R. Boča

Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Slovak Technical University, 880 37 Bratislava

Abstract:  Hexanitro complexes of Co^II, Ni^II, and Cu^II represent systems under inves­tigation. They exhibit phase transitions depending on temperature. The central atom—ligand distances in these square-bipyramidal complexes correlate in the way that with increasing axial distance, R_a, the value of equatorial central atom—ligand distance, R_e, decreases and vice versa. Thus the so-called  R_a vs. R_e dependence is registered within the individual compounds as a consequence of changes in the amount of the total energy.

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Chemical Papers 35 (6) 779–784 (1981)