Talk:Chromium(II) acetate

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Is chromium (II) acetate soluble in water at STP? -- VGF11 00:36, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Structure

Hi all,

I generated a fake structure for this molecule by getting the X-ray diffraction data for a similar compound from

Cotton, F.A. and Hillard, E.A. and Murillo, C.A. and Zhou, H.-C. (2000). "After 155 Years, A Crystalline Chromium Carboxylate with a Supershort Cr-Cr Bond". Journal of the American Chemical Society 122 (2): 416-417. ,

with the relevant data at ACS Supporting Information, hacking together a molfile, and editing it in pymol. It's not strictly accurate: it looks to me as if the bond lengths from the Cr to the H₂O are wrong, and for some reason the angles from the Chromium atoms to the acetates aren't 90° like in the X-ray diffraction drawing. I put my molfile in the image page, so if you can do better given the data, go for it!--Slashme 22:21, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Nice job, but the previously displayed picture is superior, I thought. If you are looking for structures to draw, ZrCl₄ is wanting, and the same pic could be used for many related cmpds.--Smokefoot 02:43, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Wow, I just went to figure out what that would look like, and I see it's just been done! --Slashme 20:17, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Previously displayed picture? What previously displayed picture? There wasn't one when I got here. --Slashme 09:11, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

This one, a couple of edits ago:

Oh, OK, I never noticed that. Why was it removed? --Slashme 18:40, 28 October 2007 (UTC) I see, new chembox, baby with bathwater. I've put back the picture. --Slashme 20:23, 28 October 2007 (UTC)