D. Grdenić, B. Korpar-Čolig, M. Sikirica
Nov 9, 1982
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Journal of Organometallic Chemistry
Abstract
Abstract The product obtained by boiling an ethanolic solution of mercuric chloride with sodium acetate (Hofmann, 1899) has been identified as tris(chloromercuri)acetaldehyde. The analogous bromomercuri derivative is obtained by using mercuric bromide. Both compounds crystallize from DMSO of DMF solution as the one-to-one solvates. The crystal structure of (ClHg)3CCHO·DMF (A) and (BrHg)3CCHO·DMSO (B) has been determined by X-ray diffraction methods and refined by full-matrix least-squares to the conventional R indices of 0.087 and 0.079, respectively. The mean value of the HgC bond length is 2.09(9) A in A and 2.04(7) A in B.