The crystal and molecular structure of bis(tetramethylammonium) hexamolybdate(VI)

The crystal structure of the title compound, C 8 H 24 N 2 Mo 6 O 19 was determined by single crystal X‐ray diffraction technique. The crystals are trigonals, space group P‐3c1, with a = b = 10.0176(11) Å, c = 14.089(2) Å, γ = 120°, V = 1224.4(3) Å 3 , Z = 2. The structure was solved by direct methods and refined by least‐squares methods to a Final R = 0.0316 for 1114 observed reflections with I > 2σ(I). In hexamolybdate anion, six MoO 6 distorted octahedra are fused together so that they all share a common vertex. O atoms are of three types: central, terminal and bridging, bonded to six, one and two Mo atoms, respectively. The crystallographic data of the structure was deposited with the Cambridge Data Center as No. CCDC 199679. (© 2003 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)