Abstract

Kottaimalai Karpagavel¹ And Arumugam Manohar^2*

DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.13005/ojc/300268

In this paper we have taken the initiative to assign the oxidation state of metal ions in  Zinc and Cadmium dithiocarbamate complexes by using Bond Valence Sum (BVS) method. For that the crystallographic distances for a series  of Zn(II) and Cd(II) dithiocarbamate complexes and their nitrogenous adducts have been  collected from the literature and analyzed using the bond valence sum method. The calculated values from crystallographic distances predict the correct oxidation state of the metal centre in a wide range of structural types. The  BVS analysis  has confirmed the valency of the central metal to be 2.0 as expected and  proves the correctness of the related crystal structures..

Oxidation state; Bond Valence Sums; dithiocarbamate; Zinc; Cadmium

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