“…The Cu-N bond lengths of 1.971 (2) and 1.984 (2),~, are similar to the copper-ammine nitrogen distances found in sulfato and selenatotetraamminecopper(II) (Morosin, 1969), diammine-(o-phthalato)copper(lI) (Cingi, Guastini, Musatti & Nardelli, 1970), diazidodiamminecopper-(II) (Agrell, 1966), hexaamminecopper(II)chloride (Distler & Vaughan, 1967), di-/z-hydroxobis(dimethylamine)copper(II) sulfate monohydrate (Iitaka, Shimizu & Kwan, 1966), bis(ethylenediamine)copper(II) thiocyanate (Brown & Lingafelter, 1964), and nitrate (Komiyama & Lingafelter, 1964) as well as in other molecules, all of which fall in the range 1.97 to 2.07/~,. The Cu-O(1) and Cu-O(3) bond lengths of 1.986 (2) and 1.989 (2) A are within the range of 1.88 to 2.03 A found in monopyridinecopper acetate (Barclay & Kennard, 1961), copper acetate monohydrate (van , acetylactone-mono-(ohydroxyanil)copper(lI) (Barclay & Hoskins, 1965), azurite, CH3(OH)2(CO3) 2 (Gattow & Zemann, 1958), and other related molecules. The closest through-space Cu-Cu approach of 3.500 (1) A is considerably longer than the values of 2.63 to 2.99 A found for Cu-Cu bonds in copper dimers Barclay & Kennard, 1961;Barclay & Hoskins, 1965), but it is not greatly different from the value of 3.722 A which we have recently found for the nonbonded Cu-Cu approach in the Cu2C14-dimer (Hodgson, Hale & Hatfield, 1971).…”