Structural studies of eight-co-ordinate metal complexes. Part II. Crystal and molecular structure of tetrakis(dithiobenzoato)molybdenum(IV)

Abstract

The crystal and molecular structure of the title compound has been determined by X-ray methods. The compound crystallizes in the tetragonal space group I4₁/a, with a= 21.486(1), c= 6.73(2)Å, Z= 4. The structure was solved using 1 267 reflections collected by atomatic diffractometry, via Patterson and Fourier techniques, and refined by least-squares to R 0.033. The dodecahedral geometry of co-ordination (subclass D_2d, 2m) and the general ligand conformation closely approximate to those of the vanadium analogue.