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Crystal structure of copper(II) cimetidine sulphate nonahydrate. Cation distortion and structure isomerism in three copper(II) cimetidine complexes

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Abstract In the crystalline state, the complex [Cu(CM) 2 ]SO 4 ·9H 2 O (CM = cimetidine) is constituted of two-dimensional cations[Cu(CM) 2 2+ ] n separated by SO 4 2− anions and water molecules. As in the related complexes [Cu(CM) 2 ](ClO 4 ) 2 and [Cu(CM) 2 ](NO 3 ) 2 , the copper atom lies in a strongly distorted octahedral CuN 4 S 2 environment. The distortion is quite different from one complex to another (cation distortion isomerism). In the title compound the CuS bond is unusually long (2.91 A). Unlike the title compound, the [Cu(CM) 2 2+ ] n cations in the perchlorate and nitrate salts are one-dimensional infinite chains characterized by different conformations of the cimetidine molecules (cation structure isomerism).