“…Each mercury is surrounded by four iodines in a distorted tetrahedral arrangement, and the structure can be envisioned as a pair of HgI 4 tetrahedra sharing an edge. This dimeric arrangement has been reported for two other triiodomercurates (Contreras, Seguel & Honle, 1980;Beurskens, Bosman & Cras, 1972) as well as for various bromo-and chloromercurates (Goggin, King, McEwan, Taylor, Woodward & Sandstrom, 1982;Gal, Beurskens, Cras, Beurskens & Willemse, 1976;Kistenmacher, Rossi, Chiang, Van Duyne & Siedle, 1980;Spek, 1979). The difference between the Hg--I(bridge) distances The [P(C6Hs)4] + cation has the usual tetrahedral distribution of bonds around P. The P-C distances average 1.789,/~ (Table 2) as found elsewhere (Bogaard & Rae, 1982).…”