A Layered Nickel Succinate with Unprecedented Hexanickel Units: Structure Elucidation from Powder‐Diffraction Data, and Magnetic and Sorption Properties

Abstract

Despite the presence of 55 nonequivalent atoms the structure of the layered nickel succinate [Ni7(C4H4O4)4(OH)6(H2O)3]⋅7 H2O was solved by ab initio methods from powder-diffraction data. The structure contains unprecedented Ni6 units (blue in the picture) linked by further Ni-centered octahedra (green) and succinate ions (yellow). Supporting information for this article is available on the WWW under http://www.wiley-vch.de/contents/jc_2002/2003/z50247_s.pdf or from the author. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.