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Synthesis, vibrational spectra and single-crystal structure determination of lithium tricyanomethanide Li[C(CN)3]

  • Olaf Reckeweg EMAIL logo , Maurice Conrad , Armin Schulz , Francis J. DiSalvo and Thomas Schleid
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Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B
From the journal Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B Volume 73 Issue 3-4

Abstract

The long-elusive structure of lithium tricyanomethanide Li[C(CN)3] has been determined on the basis of material synthesized via a metathesis reaction of Ag[C(CN)3] with LiCl in water driven by AgCl precipitation and subsequently recrystallization from methanol. Li[C(CN)3] crystallizes in the non-centrosymmetric orthorhombic space group Ima2 with the unit-cell parameters a=751.06(4), b=1059.75(6) and c=563.27(3) pm adopting a unique structure with planar [C(CN)3]− anions exhibiting nearly ideal trigonal planar D3h symmetry. The Li+ cations are coordinated by five independent tricyanomethanide anions forming a distorted square pyramid with Li–N distances between 202 and 249 pm. The vibrational frequencies were also determined and along with other properties of Li[C(CN)3] compared with those of related compounds.

Keywords: crystal structure; lithium salts; tricyanomethanide [C(CN)3]− (tcm); vibrational spectra

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Received: 2017-12-11
Accepted: 2018-1-10
Published Online: 2018-2-27
Published in Print: 2018-4-25

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https://doi.org/10.1515/znb-2017-0216
Keywords for this article
crystal structure; lithium salts; tricyanomethanide [C(CN)3]− (tcm); vibrational spectra

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