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Space orientation and bonding properties of thiourea in N-salicylideneglycinatocopper(II) complex

D. Valigura, G. Ondrejovič, and J. Krätsmar-Šmogrovič

Department of Inorganic Chemistry. Slovak Technical University, CS-812 37 Bratislava

Abstract: On the basis of structural data which are known for copper(I) and copper(II) complexes with thiourea the conditions for back donation be­tween copper(II) and thiourea have been analyzed. The back donation is considered to occur in complexes where atoms of thiourea molecule and a copper(II) atom are coplanar. Unusually short Cu—S bond length found in the [Cu(salalgly)(tu)] com­ plex is probably caused by contribution of dative  π-bond to the total bonding character.

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Chemical Papers 41 (2) 183–193 (1987)