Crystal Structure of the Adduct Hexahydroxotelluric Acid-Disodium Ethylenediaminetetraacetate-Water (1/1/2)

Abstract

The title compound crystallizes in the form of racemic twins of hexagonal symmetry from slightly acidic aqueous solutions containing H6TeO6 and Na2H2edta in a broad range of molar ratios. The crystals are of excellent quality and high diffraction power, thus enabling the structure determination with a precission not routinely attainable by conventional single crystal X-ray diffraction (R = 0.015 at room temperature). The building units of the structure, held together by a system of hydrogen bonds, are the octahedral Te(OH)6 molecule, the H2edta2- anion with protonated nitrogens, two water molecules and two sodium cations surrounded by ten oxygens in the O4Na(mi-O)2NaO4 moiety of irregular geometry.