Synthesis and Structure of Acetonitrile Solvates of Copper(II) Monofluoroacetate and Silver(I) Trifluoroacetate, [Cu2(CH2FCOO)4· 2CH3CN](CH3CN) and Ag3(CF3COO)3(CH3CN)2

Compounds [Cu2(CH2FCOO)4· 2CH3CN](CH3CN) (I) and Ag3(CF3COO)3(CH3CN)2(II) were synthesized and studied by X-ray structural analysis. Crystals Iare monoclinic, space group C2/c, a= 27.854(6), b= 8.286(2), c= 19.428(4) Å, β = 106.82(3)°, V= 4292(2) Å3, Z= 8, R1= 0.0426; crystals IIare triclinic, space group \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document} $$P\overline 1 $$ \end{document}, a= 8.676(2), b= 9.819(2), c= 11.961(2) Å, α = 95.27(3), β = 109.59(3)°, γ = 104.60(3)°, V= 911.4(3) Å3, Z= 2, R1= 0.0252. Structure Iis composed of the structural units (“lanterns”) typical of copper(II) carboxylates. The presence of an additional acetonitrile molecule noncoordinated by the copper atoms makes it possible to consider compound Ias a lattice clathrate. Structure IIhas no analogs among the silver carboxylates. It simultaneously contains silver atoms with coordination numbers varying from 2 to 4.