Zinc cyanamide, Zn (CN2)

M Becker, M Jansen

Index: Becker, Michael; Jansen, Martin Acta Crystallographica Section C: Crystal Structure Communications, 2001 , vol. 57, # 4 p. 347 - 348

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Abstract

Single crystals of the title compound have been grown by annealing microcrystalline zinc cyanamide at 843 K in silver crucibles. Zn (CN2) crystallizes as colourless prisms. The crystal structure is composed of corner-linked ZnN4/2 tetrahedra. Carbon and nitrogen form (CN2) 2− dumb-bells with the C atom on a twofold axis. Nitrogen is approximately trigonally planar, coordinated by two Zn atoms and one C atom.