Stereochemistry of cobalt(II) in a complex of cobalt(II) chloride with dodeca(dimethylamino)cyclohexaphosphazene
Abstract
The complex formed by cobalt(II) chloride with the macrocyclic ligand dodeca(dimethylamino)cyclohexaphosphazene is ionic, the metal in the cation having a strongly distorted trigonal bipyramidal configuration, in which the axial bonds are significantly longer than the equatorial bonds; the anion is the previously unrecognised hexachlorodicobaltate(II) ion.