“…3 Polymeric silver() complexes with inorganic 4-7 and organic 8-12 ligands have been reported, but the synthesis and characterisation of many of these compounds is incomplete because of their insolubilities. 10, 11 Richmond and co-workers have shown that AgO 3 SCF 3 with 1,4-di-tert-butyl-1,4-diazabuta-1,3-diene gives a polymeric derivative, 11 but a reversible polymerisation reaction results when the related phenyl derivatives XC 6 H 4 CHNC 2 H 4 NCHC 6 H 4 X (X = Cl or Br) are added in a 1 : 2 molar ratio. 12 The study of silver() with simple acyclic nitrogen-donor ligands has, however, been relatively neglected.…”