title: Potassium bis(carbonato-O,O')(ethylenediamine-N,N')cobaltate(III) monohydrate at 173 K.
abstract: The title salt, K[Co(C2H8N2)(CO3)2].H2O, consists of a distorted octahedral cobalt complex anion and a seven-coordinate potassium cation. Both metal atoms have crystallographic twofold symmetry, one C2 axis passing through the Co atom and C--C bond, and another along a short K--O (water) bond of 2.600 A (corrected for libration). The carbonate is bidentate to both cobalt and potassium and the water forms a hydrogen bond to a carbonate O atom.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, Box 571227, Washington, DC 20057-1227, USA.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Belai
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Dickman
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Pope