Kinya Iijima, Shuzo Shibata
1974
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Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan
Abstract
The molecular structure of tungsten oxide tetrachloride was determined by the sector-microphotometer method of gas electron diffraction. The molecule was found to have a square-pyramidal structure, and the following molecular parameters were obtained by a least-squares method; rg(W–Cl)=2.281±0.003 A, rg(W–O)=1.686±0.011 A, and rg(Cl···Cl(s))=3.151±0.015 A. The OWCl angle, 102.4±1.3°, is much larger than the corresponding angles found in other square-pyramidal molecules such as XeOF4 and IF5.