A layered silver sulfonate incorporating nine-coordinate AgI in a hexagonal grid

Abstract

Silver benzenesulfonate is an example of a layered ‘inorgano–organic’ solid where the inorganic component is comprised of sulfonate-bridged silver(I) centers and the organic moiety is a phenyl group; the resulting network of silver ions forms a planar hexagonal array incorporating a previously unobserved six-fold metal-bridging mode for the sulfonate ion.