“…Only one topology is known for cobalt compounds of this composition, in which every two cobalt cations are connected by a pair of -1,3-bridging thiocyanate anions, forming dimers, which are connected to four adjacent dimers by single -1,3-bridging thiocyanate anions (Wö hlert & Nä ther, 2013;Suckert et al, 2016Suckert et al, , 2017Werner et al, 2015b). Nevertheless, with other metal cations different layer topologies are known in which, for example, trimers are formed instead of dimers, which are connected by single -1,3thiocyanate bridges (Kozísková et al, 1990;Kabešová et al, 1990) or in which each metal cation is directly connected to four neighboring metal cations by single -1,3-thiocyanate bridges (McElearney et al, 1979;Werner et al, 2015c;Ðaković et al, 2010). Although it is not clear by which parameters the formation of either chains or layers is promoted, a third isomer of composition Co(NCS) 2 (L) 2 exists in which the thiocyanate anions are N-terminally coordinated, forming discrete tetrahedral complexes (Prananto et al, 2017;Neumann et al, 2018c;Hannachi et al, 2019).…”