“…The chalcogenidoarsenates are formed by corner- or edge-sharing of [AsQ 3 ] 3- and [AsQ 4 ] 3- (Q = S, Se) units, resulting in a variety of chalcogenidoarsenate aggregates. Such as [As 2 Q 4 ] 2- ( Smith et al, 1996 ; Xu et al, 2021 ), [As 2 Se 5 ] 4- ( Fu et al, 2006 ; Jia et al, 2006 ; Chen et al, 2021 ), [As 2 Se 6 ] 2- ( Wendel and Müller, 1995 ; Smith et al, 1998 ; Fu et al, 2005b ; Jia et al, 2011 ; Zhao et al, 2011b ; Yang et al, 2018 ), [As 3 Q 6 ] 3- ( An et al, 2017 ; Fu et al, 2005a ; Zhou et al, 2017 ), [As 4 Q 6 ] 2- ( Ansari et al, 1992 ; Smith et al, 1996 ), [As 4 S 7 ] 2- ( Vater and Sheldrick, 1997 ), [As 4 Q 8 ] 4- ( Kromm and Sheldrick, 2008 ), [As 6 S 10 ] 2- ( Vater and Sheldrick, 1997 ), [As 8 S 13 ] 2- ( Sheldrick and Kaub, 1985b ; Sheldrick and Kaub, 1985a ; Vater and Sheldrick, 1998 ), [As 10 Q 3 ] 2- ( Smith et al, 1996 ). The thiophilic metal ions (Cu + , Ag + , Cd 2+ , Hg 2+ ), which have less or little tendency to form complex cations with the strongly chelating amines, usually bond directly to the chalcogen elements.…”