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Distortions of Coordination Polyhedra

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Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry

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The equilibrium configuration of a set of 4 or 6 point charges about an isotropic attracting center is a regular tetrahedron or octahedron, respectively. In many determinations of crystal structures of compounds containing co — ordination complexes exhibiting coordination numbers 4 and 6, the coordination polyhedra are found to be more or less distorted from these regular configurations. There are many factors which may influence these distortions: differing sizes of the ligand atoms; differing“bonding strength” of the ligand atoms; steric effects of other atoms bonded to the ligand atoms; crystal packing effects; hydrogen bonding; Jahn-Teller or other crystal field effects

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  1. University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

    E. C. Lingafelter & H. Montgomery

  2. Canadian Services College, Royal Roads, Victoria, B.C., Canada

    E. C. Lingafelter & H. Montgomery

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  1. Technical University of Vienna, Austria

    V. Gutmann

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Lingafelter, E.C., Montgomery, H. (1964). Distortions of Coordination Polyhedra. In: Gutmann, V. (eds) Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-3650-8_45

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