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Axial versus equatorial metal-ligand distances in transition metal compounds. I. Hexafluoro complexes

R. Boča

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

Abstract: X-ray structural data of the 1st-row transition metal hexafluorides were analyzed. Mean equatorial, R_e, and mean axial, R_a, metal-ligand distances exhibit an R_a vs. R_e correlation realized in the fact that with increasing R_a the distance R_e decreases and vice versa. The studied complexes cover elongated and compressed tetragonal bipyramids having in their octahedral configuration 3 classes of electronic ground states.

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Chemical Papers 35 (6) 769–777 (1981)